Reflection Post Questions

1. What did you learn?
-I learned about midevil torture weapons and how they worked. I learned mostly about the guillotine, the torture chair, and the thumbscrew.

2. What was your research question?
-What was the purpose of the guillotine, torture chair, and thumbscrew.

3. What was the answer to your research question?
-The purpose of the guillotine was to publicly kill someone. The purpose of the torture chair is to extract confessions and slowly kill the person. The purpose of the thunbscrew is to also extract confessions and crush the thumbs of the person.

4. Did your final product answer that question? How?
-Yes, because the websites that I found told a lot about how each of the torture devises worked and what they looked like.

5. What did you do well on the project?
-The research and the models.

6. What could you have improved on the project?
-We could have been more prepared.

7. What would you change about what you did on the project?
-We would have made the models sooner, and made them look more alike to the real thing.

8. What would you change about the assignment itself?
-Less notecards and less research on the subject.

9. What grade do you think you deserve on the project? Why?
-A because I think we did a good job on the research and we knew what we were doing. I also think that our models were made really good and depicted on what the real object was.