Project I-57

male ­ 10 (group 1) / 11  (group 2)     total = 21
female ­ 9 / 11  total = 20

age:

14 ­ 4  / 6  total = 10
15 ­ 10  / 15  total = 25
16 ­ 3 / 1 total = 4
not given ­ 2 / 0  total = 2

1.  Put a check (    )  next to the schools your class communicated with over the last year as part of Project I-57:

Benton Middle School ­ 19 / 20  total = 39
Chicago Historical Museum  - 1 / 0  total = 1
Maine West High School ­ 0 / 1  total = 1
Maine East ­ 0 / 1 (but student mentions Benton MS for Q3)  total = 1
Nelson ­ 0/1  total = 1

2.  Did you exchange e-mail and other correspondence with specific students at any of these schools?

Yes ____  17  / 21  total = 38
No _____ 1 / 1  total = 2
both Yes and No selected ­ 1 / 0  total = 1

3.  If so, what were their names and the schools they were at?

mentioned one student name (if ‘yes’ in 2) ­ 8 / 4  total = 12
mentioned two student names ­ 7 / 8   total = 15
mentioned three student names ­ 2 / 6  total = 8
gave no student name -  1 / 4   total = 5

OTHER

they were supposed to be K & B [but never replied] - / 1

4.  How often did you communicate with the Project I-57 student(s) above? Put a check next to one of
       these answers:

       a. never _____  0 / 1   total = 1
       b. only once _____ 5  / 2  total = 7
       c. just a few times over the semester _____ 3 / 9  total = 12
       d. a couple of times a month _____  0 / 1  total = 1
       e. at least once a week _____ 10  / 7   total = 17
       f. almost every day _____  1 / 2  total = 3

5.  What would you say was the total number of times you communicated with the Project I-57 student(s)?

       a. never _____  0 / 1  total = 1
       b. only once _____ 5 /  3  total = 8
       c. 2-5 times total _____ 7 / 5   total = 12
       d. 5-10 times total _____  7 / 10   total = 17
       e. more than 10 times total _____  0 / 3   total = 3
 

6.  When did you communicate with them for the first time? (Estimate the month and day, if you’re not
       sure.  If you communicated with more than one school, list each school separately.)

no response -  1 / 0   total = 1
 
April ­ 6 / 0
beginning of April ­ 1 / 0
middle of April/April 15 ­ 2 / 13
April 15 to end of May ­ 0 / 1
late April to late May ­ 0 / 1
May something ­ 1 / 0
early May ­ 0 / 1
May 21 ­ 1 / 0
May 15 ­ 0 / 2
March 20, 1999 ­ 1 / 0
March 29 ­ 1 / 0

two weeks ago ­ 1 / 1
one month ago ­ 1 / 1
two months ago (April) ­ 3 / 0
yes ! ­ 1 / 0
Benton ­ 0 / 1
can’t remember ­ 0 / 1
The reason we communicate was because of the grant. We only communicate with Benton.
 
7.  When was the most recent time you communicated with them? (If you communicated with more than one school, list each school separately.)
 
no response -  2 / 3  total = 5
 
May ­ 1 / 1
May 18 ­ 1 / 0
around May 15 or in that week ­ 0 / 1
somewhere around May 21 or 22 - / 1
May 28, 1999 2:26 pm; - 0 / 1
end of May/late May ­ 0 / 11
early May -/1
a month ago ­ end of May ­ 1 / 1
two months ago (April) ­ 2 /

every morning ­ 1 / 0
one week ago/last week ­ 5   /  4  total = 9
last week, end of May ­ 0/1
two weeks ago ­ 2 / 1
a week before the school ended ­ 1 / 0
about a month ago ­ 0 / 1

in school, during my free period ­ 1 / 0
I don’t know ­ 1 / 0
never he send me the mail and never resopned [sic] to me ­ 1 / 0
never ­ 0 / 1
during my free period around 2:15 ­ 0 / 1
I e-mailed them but they didn’t e-mail me back ­ 0 /1
 
8.  How did you communicate with the other student(s)?  Check all the ways that you used.
 
         no response ­ 0 / 1
 
         e-mail ___ 19  / 20   total = 39
         electronic (Web) postcards ___  6 / 7  total = 13
         telephone ___ 1 / 0
         making Web pages about yourself ___  3 / 1  total = 4
         other (describe) _____
 
         Distant Learning Lab ­ 0 / 1
         CU-See Me/face to face  -  5 / 1   total = 6
 
9.  What kinds of things did you talk about when you communicated with students at the other schools?
 
       no response ­ 1 / 0
 
ourselves ­ 0 / 2
how they/I live ­ 1 / 5  total = 6
life ­ 1 / 1 total = 2
where I live ­ 2 / 0
who I live with ­ 1 / 0
community ­ 1 / 3  total = 4
their surroundings ­ 1 / 0
caves (in Benton) ­ 1 / 0
farms ­ 1 / 0
a typical day ­ 0 / 3
what they do/activities ­ 2 / 4  total = 6
what they do in school/classes ­ 5 / 5 total = 10
school schedule ­ 0 / 2
pets ­ 2 / 1
things our teachers made us write ­ 2 / 0
home/family life ­ 6 / 11  total = 17
friends ­ 1 / 1  total = 2
boyfriend stuff ­ 1 / 0
N always talk about girls ­ 0 / 1
hobbies, things we like to do ­ 4 / 4
religion ­ 1 / )
future jobs/plans ­ 1 / 2  total = 3
the future ­ 2 / 0
goals ­ 0 / 1
the world ­ 1 / 0
sports ­ 1 / 4  total = 5
wrestling ­ 0 / 1
if they like living there ­ 1 / 0
how I look ­ 1 / 0
my favorite/perfect weekend ­ 2 / 2  total = 4
how are you, how did your day go, talk how life is and other stuff - 1  /   0
 
OTHER

Nothing because I never got anything back
teenagers are all the same
 
10. How did you feel about each of the students you communicated with more than once -- positive
       things, negative things?
 
       no response -  1 / 1  total = 2

 POSITIVE-  12 / 13   total = 25

cool, understanding
they were nice
positive ­ even though we communicated (email) once
their [sic] ok I guess
positive things. good answers. like writing back.
a lot of positive things
they were good communicating with them [sic] to tell them how high school is advice.
They were funny & kind & open

(very) nice people ­ 2
I felt that they were nice people
Positive things = I got to meet some people through e-mail and camra [sic]
I felt good taking [sic] to a friend that was miles away from me.
I think they were nice and respectful.
They are okay, some are a little weird or boring but still
positive because I learned about them
They were both good kids and I liked them a lot [sic]
My person was really was positive, she talked about her family, and what kind of house [s]he had
positive, sweet, nice
I think that they were uquic [unique?] in their own ways, and I don’t think that there was nothing negative about them
 

NEGATIVE -  2 / 0

they look immature
both of the kids are negative because I mailed them so much and the [sic] never wrote back
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There were non [sic] It was fun.

POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE ­  0 / 7

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kool [sic], mean (referring to different students subject interacted with)
positive and negative, they never wrote back
it was interesting, they stopped e-mailing me
Both because every time I send it the system sometimes won’t work
They were really friendly.  I didn’t like it when they didn’t respond right away.
It was kind of fun talking them but at the end it started to get boring because sometimes our emails wouldn’t
  go through and we had to type it again
There wer [sic] alright would wright [sic] a lot [sic], but not all the time.

OTHER ­

I didn’t talk to them more than once
never communicated
don’t know
It depends how they describe themselves and how they act
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Actually I never got to know my people, because they never got my e-mail.  And I only received theres [sic] for only 2 times.
 
11. Were any of them from a different ethnic, social or religious group than you and your family?  What did you find you had in common with them?   What was different?
 
       no response ­ 0 / 0

       YES -  4 / 10   total = 14

They were mostly Chritans [sic]  (Muslim student)
Yes there was a differen [sic] religious group
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Most of them (I think) were Christian
I think one of the guys, was Italian and that’s all I found out about them.
They were all white.
Yes most of them were white
They were all the same background and they were surprised from my background.
Yes, they were white
Yes, they were different ethnic from my family, because I am [European nationality] and I think that they were american. [sic]

 NO ­ 1 / 4   total = 5

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not from [different] ethnic, social or religious group than my family
No there [sic] were all white.
No, I don’t think so.  They are all mostly polish [sic] or something else. (by Indian student!)

       (in common)
 
she had just moved there from Chicago and wanted to go back
movies
we both liked sports
sports, hangout, go to the moveies [sic]
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they dress like us and had things in common with me.  They lived [sic]
we seem to dress the same.  I think all teens are the same
the were white and I’m white
they like mostly all the same sports & stuff
we both liked sports and we both liked cars.  There were no differences.
One day [they?] new [sic] how to draw and I’m pretty good at drawing myself.
we had the same intrests [sic]
that we like to hang out with our friends
We had lot in common.
We both had fish [pets?]
music, sports
we had some stuff in common
that we did the same activities or liked the same things

       (different)

I was a female and all of them where [sic] male and I was black and the [sic] where [sic] white
I was older, different ways we have fun etc.
He likes to  hang out with friends & play basketball (female student)
He has a cat named Cocoa
I didn’t have anything in common.  They did like bike riding, not me
we live by the city the [sic] live by the farm
I didn’t find anything in common w/ them
they like stuff like gokarts
they all either did farming or hunting
They use guns for hunting animals
The diffrence [sic] were their accents/talk with accents
all white kids [as opposed to ethnic diversity in Chicago?] (European student)
nothing in common
The only thing that was different was that they had an accent.
we both live in different community.
a lot [sic] of things were diffrent [sic] that we didn’t have in common
the way they talked and lived

OTHER ­

I don’t know ­ 6 / 3  total = 9
I don’t know, I never asked ­ 2 / 0

I had no idea about anything
I don’t know what religion they were, the things we would change.
don’t remember
he didn’t tell me
mostly white
They all seemed to look the same
I don’t know, they were white
 
12. After learning more about the lives of the students you communicated with,  did your thoughts and feelings about them change in any way?  More positively?  More negatively? (talk about each student separately)
 
       no response ­ 0 / 1

       more POSITIVE ­ 3 / 9   total = 12

I think the [sic] where [sic] positively good
They changed positively, because they are a lot [sic] like us and I hadn’t known this.
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that they are nice people
more positive because I used to think that they had very big accents
It change [sic] more positively I learn more about them and their daily life.
Yes, because I found out they weren’t beverly Hillbillys [sic]
positively because they are just like us
It changed positively I there are the same than different [sic]
I think my thoughts have changed a lot positively.  I thought it was stupid, it wasn’t that bad.

       more NEGATIVE ­ 0 / 0

positive and negative ­ 1 / 1  total = 2

M:  He wrote something.  He was cool.   T: no
C: sound nice, J: mean, D: OK

NO change ­ 10 / 9  total = 19

no, they are just the same as we are
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No, not really they were all the same, but only I knew more info
It usually stayed the same, but I really liked talking to them.
No, because we are all the same
My feeling about them hevet [sic] change.  N. I always talk to but J. he emailed me once and said hate [?] my name.
No, because I kind of knew that they lived that way because they lived on a farm.

OTHER

I never got an e-mail back
never communicated, they didn’t e-mail
they didn’t write back that much
I still won’t live there, too farming.  I never commicated [sic] w/ them
It didn’t matter
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that they were very much like us
I got to know them a lot [sic] better then [sic] just seeing there [sic] pictures.
 
13. After learning more about the communities of the students you communicated with,  did your thoughts and feelings about these towns change in any way?  More positively?  More negatively?  (talk about each town separately)
 
no response  - 2 / 2  total = 4

more POSITIVE  - 1 / 8   total = 9

Yes, benton was cool
--
People got a long [sic] really good
positively because it’s not that different
I thought they didn’t shop a lot but they do things that we do
I think its [sic] not that bad living in a farm, they still act like a normal kid.
Yes, it sounds like it quiet area. Not of lot of thing do down there
Yes, because I thought that they would think that were [sic] weird because we have different ethnics [sic] here

more NEGATIVE  - 3 / 1  total = 4

they sound lazy (didn’t get e-mail back after one contact)
there [sic] town sounds weak, boring
 
NO change ­ 6 / 6   total = 12

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no, they did not change in anyway [sic]
Not really, they were just like I imagined them.
No, because I don’t really no [sic] much about their community
No not [sic] of thoughts change.  I still feel the same way than before.
No, I did not have any preconceived ideas about what they were like.

YES ­ 0 / 0

OTHER

well, in between because maybe they are use [sic] to live in a small town
I don’t know because they never talked about their town
I don’t know ­ 1 /
They didn’t tell me about anything
never communicated
they are calm
their cultures are different
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Benton ­ Boring.  Chicago ­ active
I learned a little more about their town.
I think their community is not much different from ours execpt [sic] for their accent.
Yes, because it was a town like a farm town.
a little bit, one [community] was quiet the other was loud
 

14. Did any of your original ideas about other parts of Illinois turned out to be wrong?  Which ideas?
 
       no response -  4 / 2  total = 6

       NO (change) ­ 8 / 7  total = 15

No I thought it would be just like that
No, I never had an idea
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No, I did not have any preconceived ideas about other parts of illinois.
Nope. I never really wondered or asked about ideas about Benton.
Not really because I really didn’t have any ideas.
No, I had no original idea
No, I knew were [sic] they were, I on a map
No, none of my ideas of Illinois change.

       YES -   5 /  10   total = 15

the ones where they had a million farms
yes, I thought they were like our city
yes, that they had nothing there
farms and others
the weather ­ 1 / 2  total = 3
I had one. I thought that the schools looked different than Chicago’s schools
Yes, that they didn’t have some things we did, for example game systems.
Yes, I thought that it was the same
I thought that the whole Illinois must be same like Chicago, but it turned out totally different.
Yes, Chicago Illinois is a town and Benton is farm
Yes, I thought it would all be the same bit it turns out they didn’t

 OTHER

I wasn’t even thinking about this
I don’t no [sic]
?
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Springfield
Yes some weird things mean a lot to them
 
15.  Did you find out about any ethnic, religious, or social groups through Project I-57 that you hadn’t realized lived in Illinois before?  (Mention the groups.)
 
       no response -  1 / 1  total = 2

       NO -  15  / 14  total = 29

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No, not really. I sort of new [sic] that Christians lived in Illinois
No, I think that their [sic] not many ethic [sic] groups in the country side.
No, because most of them were the same and it wasn’t really talked about.
No, they were all white
No because most of them were white
No, I only talked to two guys and their religion or ethnic background never came up in our conversation.
No, They were all Catholic and there are lots and lots of catholic [sic] in Chicago.
No, because they all are the same
No basically they are all white people
No, I haven’t learned about any other ethnic group in Benton.

       YES -  1 / 6  total = 7

all white, mostly girls
that they were all white
Yes, all white kids / No, other religious kids [i.e. there weren’t kids of any other religions?]
Yes it [sic] interesting
I think for a ethnic group it was American’s white, we have mixed
Yes, because over here in Chicago there is alot [sic] of colored people and over there, there all is white people

OTHER

every nationality is in our school
don’t know them
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All I found out is that their accent is different and they seem nicer.
 
16. Before your class’s involvement with Project I-57, were there any ethnic, religious or social groups here in Illinois that you felt uncomfortable with or had negative feelings towards?  Why did you feel that way? (mention the groups)
 
no response -  2 / 1  total = 3

ambiguous response ­ 0 / 1

 No, because I am racistists [sic] ­ 0 / 1

NO -  16 / 18  total = 34

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None no!! I live in a diverse community.
I had no negative feelings toward any ethnic, religious or social groups.
No, I never been uncomfortable with any ethnic group.
No, I got a long [sic] with everyone. I had nothing against them.
No I live [in] an diverse ethnic community
No, I go to school and know lots of different people all ready [sic].
No, not really I preaty [sic] much knew they were christian.
No because they were really friendly
No, I don’t care what ethnic, or religious group people are in
I never had any problems with other ethnic groups. I actually like being friends with them.
No, people are good here, give respect.
No, I never felt that way
No, I had no problems with any ethnic group better [before?] we started communicating with the project I-57

       YES ­ 1 / 1  total = 2

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Yes, I felt uncomfortable finding out about the Jehovah Witness religion bothered me in some ways by the way they said Jesus was not born on December 25.

OTHER

I don’t understand - 0 / 1
I didn’t get any positive or negative long [?]
 
 
17.  Have any of your feelings towards those groups changed as a result of your contact with other
       students through Project I-57 -- either more positive or more negative?
 
no response ­ 2 / 1  total = 3

ambiguous response ­ 0 / 1

N/A ­ 1 / 0
don’t know ­ 1 / 0

       more positive  - 1 / 6  total = 7

more positively, I have more respect for everyone
yes, because whatever their religon [sic] is they should be happy about
It is more positive cause it is helpful

       more negative  - 0 / 0

       NO (change) ­ 12 /  14  total = 26

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Nope, they are just kids
No because I never had any bad feeling about this.
I never had any problems.
No. We only e-mail for 1 month and e-mail didn’t work for a while had problems.

       YES ­ 0 / 0

OTHER

I hate this project
I thought the [sic] were ok
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18.  Which way do you feel you learned the most from? (choose a or b)

(a) learning about the other parts of Illinois from information put on the Web by students from that area ­

7 / 7  total = 14
 
(b) learning about other parts of Illinois by communicating directly with students from that area ­

11 / 13  total = 24

 "barely"
because we can personally talk to them and get to know them

BOTH ­ 1 / 0

     no response ­ 0 / 2

19. Would you now be interested in maybe visiting some of the communities and students in Illinois you learned about in Project I-57 during this school year?

no response ­ 1 / 1  total = 2

NO -  11 / 3  total = 14

No way I am happy where I am
No, because there [sic] area is very dull, quite [sic], and it’s a small town
No thank you :-)
No I would not be interested

YES ­ 5 / 18  total = 23

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Yes, I would so that I can bike race them.
Yes, of course I thought it was very awesome!
I would be interested to go and see them, meet them.
Yes, it would be interesting to go to diffrent [sic] parts of Illinois.
Yes, because it would be fun.
Yes, very intrested [sic], I want to see it over there with my own eyes.
Yes I think we should go to Benton to meet them in person
Yes, I would like to visit Benton
Sure, becaus [sic] I really wanted to see different places then [sic] where I lived.
Yes I would be interested because I talked to them and they seem really cool
Yes, I learned a lot about them and it was really interesting.
Yes, but it takes too long to get there.  I would go if it was from school and free. Otherwise I don’t know.
Yes, because I like to visit different community
Yes, I would try anything once.
Yes, I would like to, because I want to see how it looks over there
Yes, because I want to see how it looks out there and what kinds of things they do

OTHER

maybe ­ 2 / 0