Research schedule for March

Week of March 4th:  

• construct your research question / add it to the list
• locate at least 7 sources that may help answer your question
• read the sources your found and narrow the list to your top 3
• add the MLA information into NoodleTools

Week of March 11th:

• TED talk on confirmation bias
• continue with NoodleTools 
• double check your information-- have you fallen victim to confirmation bias?

Week of March 18th:

• put the sources/ authors around a "dinner table"-- how would they react to each other?
• answer your research question (lesson); add research (?)
• construct a claim statement

Week of March 25:

• review the requirements of a research poster
• choose a logical sequence for your poster (cause and effect / compare and contrast / problem-solution)
• craft sub claims and transitions
• construct poster and talking points

April:  Present posters; begin the Argument essay

May / June:  reading comprehension and the Literary Response prompt

HOW TO CRAFT A RESEARCH QUESTION

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrWeLJZydUU

LINK to Research Project

https://docs.google.com/document/d/190v3IXUUnadBP-MxPLyrktpJnWM7Cks9S8bqalgPooc/edit?usp=sharing

Research plan:

Read and annotate information from College Board / NWP (written by students FOR adults)

Take the learning inventories

Discuss the results of the learning inventories

Read and annotate the articles written for adults BY adults

C/C the student and adult information

Create the home/ school Venn diagram

JOURNAL:  reflect on all the information so far...

Brainstorm areas of interest / search terms

Search / create a working bibliography

Construct a research question

Research

Annotated bibliography

Research poster

More information about teaching visual and hands-on learners

Visual learners:

http://theidealteacher.com/how-to-plan-lessons-for-visual-learners

https://child1st.com/blogs/resources/113577735-6-highly-effective-strategies-for-teaching-visual-learners

Hands-on learners:

https://child1st.com/blogs/resources/113159303-teaching-strategies-that-meet-the-needs-of-kinesthetic-learners

https://www.mathed.page/kinesthetics/index.html

SPRING SEMESTER

Inventory of learning style(s)

Please take the following as seriously as possible:

http://www.educationplanner.org/students/self-assessments/learning-styles-quiz.shtml

https://www.how-to-study.com/learning-style-assessment/


There will be a print inventory also.

First week of December

August 2015

1. Read the directions and clarify what they are asking you to do
2. Carefully read the passage
3. Identify a central idea
4. Identify one literary/ rhetorical element that helped you understand that central idea
5. Locate at least two examples from the text of where #4 helped you understand #3

6. Discuss the State rubric
7. Read and discuss the State exemplars-- what are the clear differences between the 4 and the 3?

8. Review the passage and rubric again
9. Read and assess the PRACTICE PAPERS-- what scores would you give them?

10.  Time to take one yourself...