Topic Focus and KWHLAQ Charts

Today's Goal: Brainstorm with your whole group - everything you know and want to know about your topic.

The Plan:

1. 4th Quarter One-Pager expectations (the resources tab has been updated as well)
2. NoRedInk Quiz
3. Read
4. Research Hyperdoc
5. Topic Selection
6. KWHLAQ

Research Hyperdoc

1. I have sent you a thing!
2. You will find that thing in Google Drive. 
3. It will be called "Group _ - Research Hypderdoc" with a letter group.
4. You and your team have access to the SAME DOCUMENT. What you type, your partner can see. What your partner types, you can see. It's called collaborative writing/working.
5. Find it, open it, skim it.

Here's the thing: Research is hard. That's partly why many of you have partners or teams. That's also why I have created a document for you that will help us follow through every step of the research process. It may feel tedious to go through each of these steps as carefully as we are going to, but for you to be a strong researcher, you have to be able to do all of the steps. Taking the shortcut on research is how you end up plagiarizing or sharing inaccurate information. Taking the shortcut is how you end up with poorly written work, as well.

On this document, you will find a lot of information, but the only thing you HAVE to worry about today is STEP ONE. It's in RED.

STEP ONE:

Topic Selection: Most of you have your topic already approved. If you do not, I will be discussing it with you today and hopefully we will find the focus so you can move forward.

Names: Fill in your names.

KWHLAQ: 

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Guess what! You only have to do half of this! It's very difficult to complete the LAQ portion if you haven't done the research to learn anything yet. This means your job today is to complete the KWH portion. By "complete those portions," I mean: write literally as much as you possibly can in each of those three boxes.

• K - What do you KNOW? Anything you even think you know about your topic goes here. Anything.
• W - What do you WANT to know? Include questions and thoughts. As many as you possibly can, no matter how small or not small. Have at least 10.
• H - HOW will you find out? (hint: come up with more than "I'll Google it")

Reminders/Homework:

• READ!
• As a team, make sure to finish STEP ONE on your Research Hypderdoc by next class
• You DO NOT have to do the LAQ boxes. You DO have to do the KWH boxes.
• One-Pager due Friday, May 10 AND Friday, June 7
• Here are your NEW directions/expectations
• NoRedInk: Pronouns!
• Diagnostic quiz due by Friday May 3. That just means take the quiz and do your best. Please don't worry about whether or not you're right. This is what we use to show our growth, just like you saw on the chart in class today. Just do your best. 
• Pronoun Practice: This will be available to you STARTING on Friday afternoon, and it will be due by Thursday, May 30. There are 8 topics, so you have quite a bit of time to do it, but you will be MISERABLE if you wait until the last second. Don't do that.