Per 5 Research

Essential Questions

1. How can I best find answers to questions I have about a topic?

2. How does one synthesize information from a variety of reliable sources to formulate a position and understanding of a topic?

What you should be able to do as a result of this unit…

Reading Informational Texts

Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.
Analyze various accounts of a subject told in different mediums (e.g., a person’s life story in both print and multimedia), determining which details are emphasized in each account.
Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is valid and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; identify false statements and fallacious reasoning.

Tues 4/28
Overview of Assignment

Thurs 4/30
Google Meet for overview of news vs. opinion with Ms. Luhtala & Ms. Sheehan

Mon 5/4
Continuing the exploration stage

Wed 5/6
Selecting your topic & generating the research question

Fri 5/8
Reading your sources & the research document

1st source

Tues 5/12
How to read your sources

Thurs 5/14
Conferencing with the library and 2nd source

Conferences

Mon 5/18
Finishing 2nd and 3rd Source

Wed 5/20
4 & 5th Source & Conferences

Tues 5/26
6th Source & Conferences

Thurs 5/28
Finishing Sources

Thurs 5/28
Work Day

Tues 6/2
Creating the Works Cited

Thurs 6/4
Model UN

Tues 6/9
Writing the Learning Reflection

Thurs 6/11
Saying Goodbye!