Food For Thought(s).

How has your reading and/or research changed and/or deepened your view of the text? About what are you most excited (or somewhat interested in)? How do your analyses and hunches mesh with those of your colleagues?

How has this step in the process changed and/or deepened your sense of where you want to take this project? What strategies worked and/or failed? For what aspects of this process will you need help, and about what are you most confident?

Before getting help on the process of research (with Professor Logan), I wasn't completely sure where my topic could go. I am interested in the fashion portion of this book, where Foster links dress with age, class, and--most interestingly—propriety. After perusing the articles I found, I realized there is much to consider for my paper. Who was dictating the fashion of women? How important to the whole society was women's fashion? What was happening politically that affected the choices women made in dress? I'm sure I'll know the answers soon...

I am excited about my group. I am doing fashion, Kassey is doing needlework, Alle is doing the boarding school experience, and Justine is doing reading and/or education. All of those ideas interconnect and complicate each other. How did the boarding school experience change what people read, wore, and did?