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Vlada Alexeeva Teacher Supervisor: Ms. Beatrice Chartrand Canadian International School Personal Project Due Date: February 25th 2013

Table of Contents Personal Project Report Acknowledgments 3 Goal 4-6 Selecting Sources 7-8 Application of Information 9-10 Achieving the Goal 11-13 Reflection on Learning 14-15 Work Cited 16-18 Appendicies Appendix 1: Process Journal 19-26 Appendix 2: Notes with Advisor 27 Appendix 3: Proof of Book Completion 28 Appendix 4: Final Product 28 Appendix 5: Survey Question Sample 29

Acknowledgements I would like to thank my supervisor, Ms. Chartrand, for helping me through this project. She was definitely a good supervisor for me and helped me a lot during this project. She always answered all of my questions and gave me feedback on whatever I needed for my essay and my product. She guided me through this project with an appropriate amount of help. She gave me a lot of ideas and advice on how to make my product and she gave me a variety of options on what to write about and how to create my product. All of her notes and constructive criticism made my project successful and interesting and I would like to thank her for that. I would also like to thank my sister for encouraging me to keep up with my project. She would always be telling me to keep up with my process journals and to edit and look over my essay at least 3 times a week. She was a big help and I really do thank her for being so supportive and encouraging throughout this whole project. I would like to thank my mother who helped me with the illustrations for my book, “Chernobyl Adventures”. Furthermore, I would like to thank Mr. and Mrs. Patton for helping me and all of the other students in grade 10 during this project and keeping us organized and answering all of our questions. Having that much



Cited: * Gale, Robert PeterBaranov, Alexander. "If the unlikely becomes likely: Medical response to nuclear accidents." Bulletin Of The Atomic Scientists 67, no. 2 (March 2011): 10. MAS Ultra - School Edition, EBSCOhost (accessed February 24, 2013). * Klaščuk, Anatol. "Children Of Chernobyl." Index On Censorship 35.2 (2006): 37. MAS Ultra - School Edition. Web. 24 Feb. 2013.

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