Week One: The Plan

Hello everyone! Our advanced English class has finally began our genius hour ideas. My goal for this eight week segment is going to learn the basics of cooking. The basics of cooking will include learning the correct terminology, knowing the correct utensils to use and being able to cook five simple meals. I came up with the idea to cook as my Grandpa is a chef and cooking teacher and because I will be living on my own here after high school. Cooking is a good trait to have and by the end of these eight weeks I am hoping to have mastered the basics of cooking and can make myself some meals.

This first week of genius hour is all about planing. However planning is not as simple as it sounds it should be. I struggled with being able to sit down and just plan something out for eight weeks. I like to procrastinate my homework and just go with the flow on a lot of things and this project, I'm not able to do that. I have no idea what this project in store for me, but if I'm able to stick to the plan and keep on my work I will be just fine.

I'm planning to research and study the cooking terms by using cookbooks and using the internet. My dad has been helping me as well my talking me through some of the things he has cooked and how to cook them. Using my parents cookbooks and the knowledge of my parents and grandparents will help me get through this project.

Our shark tank pitch was very difficult I thought. Well I didn't think it was hard it was that I was more confused on how it had to be. I had no idea how much information to put down on each slide or just not even know how many slides to have for the presentation. To me my presentation went well as I was able to get the information across that I wanted to.