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We were looking through the topics for this year’s theme on the NHD website. While we were scrolling through, we came upon this topic. Even though we were born here, our parents and their ancestors were born in China. We don’t know much of our family history except that we are Asian. We thought it would be interesting to learn more about our background and so the Nanking Massacre stuck out to us and became our NHD topic. We started out by going to the Allen County Library in Fort Wayne. We check out a book called The Good Man of Nanking, which is written by John Rabe, the leader of the Safety Zone Committee. One of us then started reading the book and took notes and quotes from the book. Then the other one searched Newspapers from the library websites that can be used as a primary source. At home, we …show more content…

We thought of doing a performance however one of us was uncomfortable with acting in front of others. After deciding with exhibits, we start brainstorming for designs. As we did more research, we saw the Ginling College was an important building during the Massacre so we decided to base our design off of the Ginling College. So we brought all our supplies from Walmart and start building at home. One of us measure a black foam board to make a roof-like title for the poster. On the other hand, one starts printing quotes and paragraphs to put the exhibit. We decided to color coded our words. For example, all quotes were outlined in black. We then start adding the titles and subtitles to our exhibit. Since it’s suppose to look like a college, we made the sides look like doors. We also decided to make a model of the Safety Zone so it’s easier to understand the story. We cut a cardboard into a rectangle and then measure the smaller picture. We multiply the measurements by 4 then paint it into our board. To make it more detailed we use Styrofoam and toothpicks to build railroads and

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