RESEARCH: Creating a Literature Review

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:

1. Read
2. Step Two: Research Questions
3. Step THREE: Research Time!
4. 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.
• Here are your NEW directions/expectations
• 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.