Open-Ended Questions and Research Time

Tolzin, Tara. “Open and Close Ended Questions.” 

YouTube, YouTube, 2 Mar. 2015, 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdeuiXc4bG0.

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:

1. Read
2. Costa's Levels of Questions: How do we use them for research?'
3. Research Hyperdoc: Step TWO
4. 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:

1. Follow all of the directions, including watching the video.
2. Your questions must be Level 2 or Level 3.
3. You must label each question with what level it is.
4. 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.

Reminders/Homework:

• READ!
• One-Pager due Friday, May 10 AND Friday, June 7
• Here are your NEW directions/expectations
• 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.