Junior Theme?!?

When i heard that we were starting junior theme on Monday, my heart started to beat faster and faster. I had heard rumors about junior theme from all my friends and siblings that it was a horrible thing and you had to do a lot of work for it. So i was nervous when we were told that we were starting it. But when i heard that it had to be a 4 to 6 page essay and on a topic that you want, i was pretty excited. I told my dad about this and he said that it would be fun for me because my brother, who is now a freshman in college, had to do his junior theme on a topic he didnt want to and he did nto like it.

So i started out with a few ideas and i narrowed it down to two. I wanted to do something on OCD or something on eating disorders. Then when i thought about it, i couldnt really do the topic on OCD because i would have a hard time relating that back to something in history. So i decided to go with the eating disorder topic. I went to see my teacher and he said that i could research eating disorders because i could look at the rates in the upper classes and the lower classes. I thought that this was a good idea and i decided to go with this.

So i was thinking about a "why" question to come up for this topic and i came up with,

Why are the rates for eating disorders different between the upper class and the lower class?

I think that this is a good question, but i am not sure if it is exactly what they are looking for. I looked at the book, The Price of Privilege in the library and i think that it would be a good book to choose because it is a story about upper classman teenagers who struggle with eating disorders.

I think this is a good start, and i am excited to do some research now.

Do you think that my "why"question can improve?

Do you have any other suggestions for books that i could read?