Journal of group meetings

First meeting:

Present: All (Dilys, Crystal, Vera, Joanne)   

Absent: Nobody                                

Date and Time :18/8 from 9am to 10am

In this meting, Dilys and Joanne found the answers for the compare and contrast question while Crystal and Vera discussed on the possible events that we should remember.Together, we shortlisted and discussed on the three topics that we are writing for our Inquiry Question : Why should we remember the 1950s and early 1960s today. We eventually decided on three topics, of which they are : Racial tension, Political Instability and  Internal Self-Government. That was all that we have discussed for today and we each will be researching on more information regarding the respective topics. We will be meeting once again to discuss and collating our findings on 24/8 from 8pm to 10pm. 

During this meeting, we met with some problems such as Dilys and Joanne disagreeing with the points on the differences butt fortunately, they help each other by understanding their individual's points of view and together, work on it to find a way to solve it. Vera and Crystal were also stucked on the last topic. They did not know wad other sub-topics to include as the questions only stated "between 1950s and early 1960s, which was quite tough as most things happened in the year 1965 . However, 1965 was not considered as early 1960s. Hence, they consult our history teacher, Ms Sng, and together, they thought of the last point which was internal self government.

Second meeting:

Present: All (Dilys, Crystal, Vera, Joanne)   

Absent: Nobody                                

Date and Time :25/8 from 12pm-1pm

In this meeting,we all had to research respectively on each of the three topics and post it onto our own Google document using the time we had between the first meeting and the second meeting.We found links and pictures during our own time outside of class and discussed in the chatroom of Google document where we decided to all meet up on Sunday night from 8pm-10pm. We decided and finalized on our findings and came to a decision to upload our findings during our second meeting.During our second meeting, we decided that we each would find 2 sources and post it online during our 1 hour lesson. Dilys posted the source related to race riots and the 1955 elections, Vera posted the source on Maria Hertogh and the 1959 Singapore election where Singapore fought for self-government. Crystal posted on Anti National Service riots and Hock Lee Bus riots. 

We met with some misconception in this meeting. After finding all the sources, we went to consult Ms Sng if it as aright. Unfortunately, she clarified with us that we were only supposed to paste the sources and did not have to elaborate on it.We were very disappointed as we had spent lot of efforts on finding those information. For once, we felt like giving up as we did not understand what was going on but with the encouragement from every member, we persevered and calmed ourselves down by thinking that we could use those information for our essay. Another thing was as we have many test this week, we are unable to do this project and were short of time. I think we can better work on our time management and not take this project for granted.

Now, we have left with the essay. We will have to discuss it through Whatsapp and one person will start writing while the rest will edit and touch on on it, We would also have to tie up the lose end by the dateline, which is on  5 September 2014.