Process Paper
Ronald Reagan an American Patriot
The theme of this year’s National History day project is Leadership and Legacy. Our class was given several suggestions of leaders from many countries. I chose to research Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States of American. Ronald Reagan was interesting to learn about. His journey to the White House was not your typical politician’s path. He grew up in typical middle class family and worked several jobs to pay his way through college. His various leadership roles throughout his life eventually led to the most respected job in our country. I began my research project by visiting the library at my school to check out books on Ronald Reagan. The internet was extremely helpful by watching videos of him during his speeches. I found him to be very easy to listen to and enjoyed laughing at his jokes. It was interesting to see him as a movie star and as our country’s 40th President. I obtained several photos and information from different websites such as history websites and news websites. My favorite source was the YouTube video “The Best of Ronald Reagan”. Ronald Reagan seemed to enjoy telling jokes to his audience. This seemed to really help the people relate to him as he shared important news about our country. We are very fortunate to have these resources available Our class was given a rubric of the History Day requirements. After reading the approved choices of the history day presentation guidelines. I decided that a website would be more interesting to me and to the judges of the History day projects. Websites seem to be more interesting because of so many options of inserting various pictures, videos and sound which interest the viewer and inform them on your topic. I began to watch videos on youtube of how to use the nhdweebly websites. The video showed me how to use the features of the weebly website. Next, I signed up as a new user for the weebly website and was given a link to click on to begin my project. Finally, I began to find information from the internet and my library books to build the website. The theme of Leadership and Legacy relates to my topic Ronald Reagan an American Patriot because he demonstrated his leadership as he stood firm against communist run dictatorships and saw the Berlin wall come down during his presidency. He earned respect from leaders of those communist countries .He was able to relate with American’s because he was willing to listen to them and serve them and the desires of the people of the United States. While in office he passed a bill to simplify the tax code and he had a strong foreign policy.