Today's Goal: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.7 Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue. YOUR Plan:
READ
Watch the Screencast directions.
Watch the Works Cited video to learn how to make your Works Cited Page.
Review the Model article to see what your final product can look like.
At the same time as Research Step 4 and 5 is WRITING the article. One of you created this and shared it with each other. Use it. Do not worry about pictures or pretty borders. It will be of no use to you yet.
Screencast for Today:
Please note: I accidentally said "Happy Wednesdsay!"
It's not Wednesday, but I am not going to redo this entire video.
Model Article:
If you click HERE, you will find an article that another teacher, Mrs. Hauck-Wood, and I wrote last year at a different school. There are a couple things we left unfinished at the end, but it's there.
Works Cited Page (Step 5):
Please note: You need in-text citations, and a lot of them. You can even put in-text citations after paragraphs that don't have quotes because an in-text citation indicates that even though it's in your own words, you got the information from a different source.
Reminders/Homework:
READ! (One-Pager due on June 6 for period 2/4 and June 7 for period 1/3/5)
RESEARCH PAPER DRAFT (IN GOOGLE CLASSROOM)
We want to be ready to move on to Step 5/6/7 on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 28 and 29.
One-Pager due Monday, May 13 for Period 1/3/5 and due Tuesday May 14 for Period 4/6.
Today's Goal: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.7 Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue. YOUR Plan:
READ
Visit the Problem/Solution & Cause/Effect Essay Types.
Watch the Works Cited video to learn how to make your Works Cited Page.
Review the Model article to see what your final product can look like.
At the same time as Research Step 4 and 5 is WRITING the article. Go to Google Classroom and find your Research Article Draft. You need ONE PERSON to MAKE A COPY of the document and SHARE IT with everyone in the group AND MS. BLACK. We will call this Step 4.5 because why not.
Model Article:
If you click HERE, you will find an article that another teacher, Mrs. Hauck-Wood, and I wrote last year at a different school. There are a couple things we left unfinished at the end, but it's there.
Works Cited Page (Step 5):
Please note: You need in-text citations, and a lot of them. You can even put in-text citations after paragraphs that don't have quotes because an in-text citation indicates that even though it's in your own words, you got the information from a different source. Essay Types: The New York Times, in this article, outlines the different structures that they generally use to write their articles on a daily basis.
Which one are you focusing on?
Notice the signal words and phrases:
so that
in order to
as a result
since
cause
because
problem
solution
As a result
therefore
due to
for this reason
thus
consequently
due to
on account of
Anecdote: a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident (Merriam-Webster)
Check out THIS ARTICLE for an example of how you can use a real person's story to jumpstart your article and hook your readers. It is also an example of a problem/solution essay, but it's REALLY LONG, so don't spend too much time on it.
You must include anecdotal evidence (or information from an interview) in your article, meaning you need to include a real person's experience, using their name. You can find those in your research OR by asking someone you know who can speak about your topic because they experienced it or worked with those who did.
Call to Action: Identify ways that people who read your article can get involved or help. This should END your article. What organizations can people donate to? Where can they volunteer? If they're IN the place where people were affected, what can they do besides give money? This can even be a list of places and phone numbers/websites of organizations to contact.
Reminders/Homework:
READ! (One-Pager due on June 6 for period 2/4 and June 7 for period 1/3/5)
RESEARCH PAPER DRAFT (IN GOOGLE CLASSROOM)
Divide and Conquer.
Use quotes as evidence.
Put in-text citations after quotes. Minimum 2 quotes per section.
One-Pager due Monday, May 13 for Period 1/3/5 and due Tuesday May 14 for Period 4/6.
Some of you might find out, when you go to create
your outline, that you are missing important information.
This means you have to go back and either reread the
articles you already read, or you will need to find new
sources of information. That's okay! That's the process!
If you get new sources, make sure you make citations.
Agenda:
Read!
Watch the video below.
Inquiry Process
Research (STEP THREE)
Outline! (STEP FOUR)
Watch this video for directions for today: Here's some important terminology (words) you might need to know:
Anecdote: a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident (Merriam-Webster)
Check out THIS ARTICLE for an example of how you can use a real person's story to jump-start your article and hook your readers. It is also an example of a problem/solution essay, but it's REALLY LONG, so don't spend too much time on it.
You must include anecdotal evidence (or information from an interview) in your article, meaning you need to include a real person's experience, using their name. You can find those in your research OR by asking someone you know who can speak about your topic because they experienced it or worked with those who did. Suggestion: put this in your introduction as a kind of hook, though it can go in lots of places.
Call to Action: Identify ways that people who read your article can get involved or help. This should END your article. What organizations can people donate to? Where can they volunteer? If they're IN the place where people were affected, what can they do besides give money? This can even be a list of places and phone numbers/websites of organizations to contact.
IF YOU FINISH ALL THE THINGS:
Two options:
Independent reading
NoRedInk.com assignment
Reminders/Homework:
READ! (One-Pager due on June 6 for period 2/4 and June 7 for period 1/3/5)
Outline of research paper (STEP FOUR) due by the beginning of next class or ASAP, whichever comes first.
One-Pager due Monday, May 13 for Period 1/3/5 and due Tuesday May 14 for Period 4/6.
Here's the rubric. Keep in mind that "having it on the page" is different from "A-quality"
Research Step THREE due May 15 and 16 at the end of class. You will have lots of time for that in class next week, but you also have to work hard, or it will get harder.
Today's Goal: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.7 Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue. The Plan:
Suggestion: Don't do this without reviewing step 4! (It asks you to outline, and I've provided an outline that you might use to organize your work later. Make sure you're answering all of your research questions!)
Other suggestion: Don't do this without reviewing the rubric at the very end!
For Your Research:
Every member of your team is expected to contribute at least THREE resources to your hyperdoc. Ms. Black has the magic ability to see what everyone types up (yes really, and no it's not actually magic).
The password for GALE is on your student ID.
Some of the articles are going to be harder than others. That's OKAY. This is where you have to practice working together and communicating.
How to make a Citation:
Reminders/Homework:
READ! (One-Pager due on June 6 for period 2/4 and June 7 for period 1/3/5)
One-Pager due Monday, May 13 for Period 1/3/5 and due Tuesday May 14 for Period 4/6.
Here's the rubric. Keep in mind that "having it on the page" is different from "A-quality"
Research Step THREE due May 15 and 16 at the end of class. You will have lots of time for that in class next week, but you also have to work hard, or it will get harder.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.1 Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.10 Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
The Plan:
Read
On-Demand Reading/Writing
Research STEP THREE.
Prompt:
Dr. Burke and the Twin Peaks staff are re-evaluating our cell phone policy at this time. Your task is to write a letter to Dr. Burke explaining what she should decide. Should students be allowed to have cell phones anytime in school? At breaks only? Never at all? Use the articles to help you choose a side and support your argument with evidence from the texts. Do not use personal pronouns.
Rubric: It's the same one you had for your Hatchet essay
You need at least three sources per person.
AT LEAST.
You need to try to get answers to all your Step 2 Questions. Take NOTES in the "what I learned" box. Summarize or bullet point the information. All of it.
Don't forget to get the citation. You may have to go to citationmachine.net and make it yourself.
See me if you want help with that.
This step is due by the end of class on May 15/16, depending on when you have me.
Reminders/Homework:
READ!
One-Pager due Monday, May 13 for Period 1/3/5 and due Tuesday May 14 for Period 4/6.
Here's the rubric. Keep in mind "having it on the page" is different from "A-quality"
Research Step THREE due May 15 and 16 at the end of class. You will have lots of time for that in class next week, but you also have to work hard, or it will get harder.
Today's Goal: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.1 Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.10 Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
The Plan:
Read
On-Demand Reading/Writing
You will have time next class to finish. Once you are done, you will have time for your research.
Prompt:
Dr. Burke and the Twin Peaks staff are re-evaluating our cell phone policy at this time. Your task is to write a letter to Dr. Burke explaining what she should decide. Should students be allowed to have cell phones anytime in school? At breaks only? Never at all? Use the articles to help you choose a side and support your argument with evidence from the texts. Do not use personal pronouns.
Rubric: It's the same one you had for your Hatchet essay
If you turn it in late, you get 20% taken off of whatever score you earned. So if you earn 25/30 on the rubric, your score in the gradebook will be 20/30 (20% of 25 points is 20)
Here's the rubric. Keep in mind "having it on the page" is different from "A-quality"
Work on your Lit review.
Three or more sources per person in your group.
DETAILS. Use the lit review space to take notes for yourself on each article so you don't have to go back to it. (try to focus on one source per day and be real specific about it.)
We start the next step on May 13(ish). (yes, that's a long time)
NoRedInk: Pronouns!
Diagnostic pretest: already due.
Pronoun Practice: 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.
Note: No class has access to this yet because no class has 100% of people who have finished the pretest. The due date is still May 30. You're losing days.
Today's Goal: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.8 Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources; [...] and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and providing basic bibliographic information for sources.
The Plan:
Read
Step Two: Research Questions
Step THREE: Research Time!
Create your "Lit Review"
Research Time! - Creating a "Literature Review"
If you are lazy about this, you'll create more work for yourself in the long run and be more stressed about the time frame. Try to focus on ONE source at a time. Maybe today you only do one source or part of a source. Maybe Saturday or Monday you do your second. Take the time, but don't waste the time.
On your document in Step 3, you will find boxes that look like this:
What you learned
Important quote from the text
Research question it helps to answer
Citation (MLA format)*
In the research world, gathering this information in this way is called creating a Literature Review, or a Lit Review. It is an overview of all of the research you have and need and will use in your final product. As a team, you will need at least three different sources per person. To be honest, you will probably have more than that.
You learned how to gather your citations in GALE, and you also have the EasyBib add-on in Google Docs now. Use those tools in your document, please!
These boxes need SO MANY DETAILS. You should be writing paragraphs in the "what you learned" box. PARAGRAPHS.
Important quotes need quotation marks, and they need to be VERY IMPORTANT. Make sure to add the in-text citation (author last name)
If you don't have a citation, you can't use this info.
It's okay if information gets repeated from multiple sources. You should still write it on your lit review. If it repeats, it probably means it's accurate. If it repeats with different information, then you know you have to go figure out which one is true.
Credible Sources to start your research can be found on your hyperdoc. GALE should be your go-to. The password is listed there, as well.
Reminders/Homework:
READ!
One-Pager due Monday, May 13 for Period 1/3/5 and due Tuesday May 14 for Period 4/6.
If you turn it in late, you get 20% taken off of whatever score you earned. So if you earn 25/30 on the rubric, your score in the gradebook will be 20/30 (20% of 25 points is 20)
Here's the rubric. Keep in mind "having it on the page" is different from "A-quality"
Work on your Lit review.
Three or more sources per person in your group.
DETAILS. (try to focus on one source per day and be real specific about it.)
We start the next step on May 13. (yes, that's a long time)
NoRedInk: Pronouns!
Diagnostic quiz due TODAY, Friday May 3 (or last Friday if you're looking at this on Monday). 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.
Note: If 100% of your class hasn't completed the diagnostic pretest, I will not make the practice available to you until that is done. The due date, though will not change. If you do not do the pretest, or someone in your class does not do the pretest, you begin to lose time to complete the assignment and will get fewer days overall.
This means I will also not accept this practice work late. You get full points for completing it on time; you get half points if you complete it late. You get no points if it is incomplete. There is no in-between.
Today's Goal: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.7 Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue. The Plan:
Read
Costa's Levels of Questions: How do we use them for research?'
Research Hyperdoc: Step TWO
Research Time!
Costa's Levels and Research Questions
You have already completed a KWH chart in which you listed as many things as you could that you wanted to know. Today your job is to use that list, your prompt, and everything you are going to learn about types of questions to focus your research questions.
As a reminder, here is your prompt:
Choose a problem or event that people in the world have been affected by.
Write an article with your group in which you:
Address the causes of the event or problem
Share the effects that this problem has had on the people or the community
Must share at least one specific story of a person or family or group of people affected by the problem
Identify people and/or organizations who work to assist those that are affected
How do they help?
What solutions have they put in place to help those in need?
Include a “Call to Action” for your readers that includes steps they may take to get involved
IN STEP TWO ON YOUR RESEARCH HYPDERDOC:
Follow all of the directions, including watching the video.
Your questions must be Level 2 or Level 3.
You must label each question with what level it is.
Once you have your questions, show them to Ms. Black.
Research Time! - Creating a "Literature Review"
If you are lazy about this, you'll create more work for yourself in the long run.
On your document in Step 3, you will find boxes that look like this:
What you learned
Important quote from the text
Research question it helps to answer
Citation (MLA format)*
In the research world, gathering this information in this way is called creating a Literature Review, or a Lit Review. It is an overview of all of the research you have and need and will use in your final product. As a team, you will need at least three sources per person. To be honest, you will probably have more than that.
You learned how to gather your citations in GALE, and you also have the EasyBib add-on in Google Docs now. Use those tools!
These boxes need SO MANY DETAILS. You should be writing paragraphs in the "what you learned" box.
Important quotes need quotation marks, and they need to be VERY IMPORTANT. Make sure to add the in-text citation (author last name)
If you don't have a citation, you can't use this info.
It's okay if information gets repeated from multiple sources.
Credible Sources to start your research can be found on your hyperdoc. GALE should be your go-to. The password is listed there, as well.
Make sure Step 2 is done on your research hyperdoc with Ms. Black's approval.
Label each question with which Costa's Level it is. They must be Level 2 or Level 3.
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.
