Researchable Questions

Today's Goal: Begin our daily routine of reading for about ten minutes. Create meaningful questions for research about our chosen topics. Begin conducting research in order to answer each of your questions.

The Plan:

1. Get chromebooks and find your new seat.
2. Book Love Reading!
3. Vocabulary Roots
4. Research Paper - Questions and Research notes

Vocabulary Roots:

Each week you will receive a set of 5-10 vocabulary words that each have a specific root in them. These words are your responsibility. I will provide the slides to complete the work, and every two weeks you will be quizzed on these roots and their words. The slides in the homework section below.

Some tips:

• Write meaningful sentences that use each word, with as many versions of the word as possible (meaning, the noun version, the verb version, the adverb, etc)
• Study the parts of speech for those words
• Make sure know synonyms for those words

RESEARCH NOTES!

• CLICK HERE for the Research assignment!
• I have also provided you with a document in Google Classroom for research. You will need to access that document today.
• You will take 4 questions that you want to research and put them at the top of each page of notes. You are required to have 4 full pages of notes (or more!) with 4 different questions.
• Eventually, these will become 3 body paragraphs for your research essay. We make an extra one because sometimes we find that one doesn't provide us with enough information for a whole paragraph, and sometimes two questions are really so similar that the should be one paragraph. 
• You MUST cite all sources used at the bottom of each page. There are links on the document for you to use to help with this. DO NOT get any information off a website without citing it.
• The Research Notes are due Monday, March 21.

Credible Vs. Not Credible Sources:

Have you heard about Dihydrogen Monoxide? IT'S DANGEROUS.

Okay for real, though. You have to be careful about what websites you trust.

Check out this Prezi for some information on sources:

Homework: 

• Get To Kill a Mockingbird from the library TODAY.
• DIT/DIC Vocab Root Practice Due FRIDAY, March 18
• CLICK HERE for the slides
• Cornell Notes Research due Monday, March 21 on Google Classroom