Today will be the last day students will dedicate to researching information. In order to begin planning the lesson tomorrow (and to determine what else groups need to research), they will organize their information at the start of the class to determine the information they want to teach. Agenda
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On Day 4 of the unit, I introduced how to cite internet articles. We also briefly discussed plagiarism and its consequences. The first source students had to use was from the list I provided (see "Research Resources" tab at the top of this page.) Day 5 & 6 were independent research days with computers. (Students find their own sources after the first one from my site.) Do Now for Day 4: 5 mins
Discuss: 5 mins
Introduce Task: 5 mins
*Students received pages 4-12 from the file below. Page 4 was a one page handout and pages 5-12 were double-sided (source info on one side, information from the source on the other).
This lesson introduces an organizational strategy for note-taking during research. Students start with a piece from a book source. They take notes citing facts, the main idea, and ask at least one question which will inform their independent research later on. Agenda
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*Note: The handout students had for this lesson was only pages 2 & 3 of the "Research Notes Packet" below.
This lesson served to activate prior knowledge about student research topics and generate research questions. Additionally, I used this lesson as an opportunity to try out some group share routines I learned at Rhonda Bondie's PD last week. Agenda
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Today's lesson served as a "publishing" opportunity for students to share their media critiques. As this was a media unit, students transformed their papers into a 120-character tweet (followed by the 20-character #genderstudiesforall). Agenda
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After reading students' papers, there were a few things with which most students struggled. Below are a few resources I will direct students to use as they revise & edit their papers for the next 2 days in class. If anyone has suggestions of resources to use to explain these areas of struggle, feel free to share! Grammar struggles
Organizational Struggles
Today we worked on the opposing claim paragraph of our media critique essays. Agenda:
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Today we talk about what serves as quality analysis to stress how important this is to the argument. I tried to get them excited about this by reminding them it's an argument - they love to do this! Agenda
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Today's lesson asked students to organize their supporting arguments and gather supporting evidence (from the piece of media chosen) and from class texts.) Agenda:
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Today we began our introduction paragraph of our media critique. *In the future, this may be an independent homework after writing the body or at least done in class after the body. I'm not sure... Agenda:
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