Inquiry

Inquiry is probably one of the easiest qualities to understand because at its core it means to ask question and being open to curiosity. We all have things we want to discover and learn about but sometimes finding the answers isn't an easy battle. I've always been the kind of person with a million questions and a billion concerns. The problem is that I'm often scared of what other people are going to think. In school my biggest fear is that other people would find out that I didn't understand something and then I'd be labeled as stupid forever. I've realized that it's more important to find answers than to pretend to have all the answers. One of the most important and hardest things that I've learned from school is that asking questions is a neccessary evil. I'm a pretty shy person but I'm also a very

everything we could about them. Then goal for this project was for us to be able to act like the person we had picked and then sit at a cafe chat with other people and answer questions as if we were that person. This project required curiosity because we needed to know everything about the person. We had find the facts and what they were like on a personal level. This project taught me how to use inquiry because I was forced to question everything about the person I'd chosen in order to discover the type of person they were. There is no greater challenge than trying to understand a human being especially if you can't even talk to them.

curious person when I hear something interesting I google it as soon as I can. I love knowing things, my problem in school was that I didn't feel comfortable asking the teachers questions in front of the entire class. I was always afraid that I would end up looking stupid. One project that taught me how to get over my fear was the cafe chat project that I did in 7th grade. For this project we had to pic a person with historical signifigance and then we had to learn