Research: Choosing a Topic

Today's Goal: Learn about your research project and the procedures of this room. Get signed up for the online resources we'll be using in class. By the end of today, you should have chosen a topic for your research project.

The Plan:

1. Circle
2. Chromebook Procedures
3. The Blog
4. Google Classroom
5. Remind
6. Turnitin.com
7. Research Paper Assignment

Google Classroom:
Many of your assignments will be done and posted on this website. Please visit classroom.google.com to join. Use your school email address, and Ms. Black will give you your class code to join our class.

Once you join, there's a question there for you to answer. Write complete sentences.

Remind:
Remind is a tool that allows us to contact each other with much more ease than email. For example, I could remind you that we are meeting outside of the library instead of our room. I may also use this to remind you, when I can, of important homework or other school/class reminders.

To join, you can either text the class code to 81010, or click one of the following links:

Period 4 Click Here
Period 5 Click Here

Turnitin.com
This is one of many ways we track and catch plagiarism, and it's the platform in which I do some of my grading.
Join my class today, please. I will put the class code and password up for you in class.


RESEARCH PAPER:

CLICK HERE for the assignment!

Today we ONLY focus on #1 and #2. You'll have some time to research and get a general idea about the topics listed on that document.

To turn in to me today:
You will make a T-Chart on paper with two columns that looks like this:

It is incredibly important that you have MORE things in the second column then the first.
I expect that you have at least THREE pieces of information that you already know about your topic, and at least FIVE QUESTIONS you have about your topic.

I am checking for your topic before you leave today. Your T-Chart is due first thing tomorrow.



Homework:

1. T-Chart with brainstorming and questions due first thing tomorrow
2. Book Love - Get yourself an independent reading book. We read for the first ten minutes of EVERY day. This starts tomorrow.
3. Get To Kill A Mockingbird from the library if you haven't already. We start reading it on Thursday.