Research+Paper

= Project Components (What to turn in...) =
 * Below are the Assignments for the** Research Project Packet.

Send all Project Components as ATTACHMENTS to mrnsilva2002@gmail.com

 * Annotated Bibliographies || * 5 or more Sources
 * Summarize each source
 * Analyze its importance to US History
 * Evaluate how the source's information supports thesis || 250 Points ||
 * Research Based Outline || * Formats paper
 * Establishes flow
 * Highlights Key Points || 100 Points ||
 * Weebly Site || * Visual aid for your extended audience
 * Based off your Research-Based Outline
 * Visual aid for your presentation audience
 * Showcases technological skill level and creativity
 * URL should be posted on your Research Paper || 100 Points ||
 * Presentation || * Summarizes Research Paper for your audience
 * Displays organizational and speaking skills
 * Opens topic for discussion and debate
 * Advertises technological skills and professionalism || 100 points ||
 * 2500 Word Paper || * Presents a wide breadth of knowledge of topic to audience
 * Enhances writing skills and sense of accomplishment
 * Demonstrates a synthesis of information pulled together from different sources
 * Culminates acquired knowledge of topic or issue || 500 Points ||

Day 1: 1st Hour **Overview of Topics Presentation**

From 2nd Hour On... Formative Assessment: Freewrite, What do I already know about the topic/person I chose?, 150 Words, **Due at the End of Class on Day 1 on your WikiSpaces Page.** Diagnostic Assessment: Listen to the Lecture Overview of the possible topics. Download and __**complete**__ the Lecture Outline Template on your “Area of Interest”. Summative Assessment:
 * Create an Annotated Bibliography of 5 Sources. To create an Annotated Bibliography, Read, Summarize, and Analyze 5 secondary sources to build a biography on your topic by completing the following tasks **for each source**:
 * 1) What is the main idea in this source? (Explain in **no less than** 5 sentences.)
 * 2) What is the author trying to prove? (Explain in **no less than** 3 sentences.)
 * 3) Why is the event important according to the text? (Explain in **no less than** 5 sentences.)
 * 4) Form your answers into a cohesive, flowing paragraph.
 * 5) Use [|www.][|**easybib**][|.com/] to create an MLA Style Works Cited Page. Paste the summaries for each reading __**under the corresponding citation.**__
 * Create a webpage on your Wikispaces titled __**"Topic Overview"**__ about your topic and be sure to create a link to your **Alphabetized** Annotated Bibliography at the bottom.

**Homework: Review Assignment Instructions for Day 2 then prepare questions.**

**Day 2:** All Work Due End of the Day

Formative Assessment: **(Thesis Statement**) According to what you learned while creating your Annotated Bibliography, in one sentence, explain why the topic was a turning point in American History. Do this by reexamining your freewrite and establish your opinion based on what you wrote.

Diagnostic Assessment: Create an **Introductory Paragraph** using the instructions in the Word Document AND the prompts below: . **Summative Assessment: Using the DETAILS in your INTRO PARAGRAPH,** Create a Public Service Announcement using visual stimuli to “hook” your audience into your topic; options of how you should present your public service announcement are listed below. Options: **Remember to upload your work to your personal WikiSpaces page!!!** **Day 3**
 * 1) Describe what life was like before your event/topic/person occurred/acted in **at least 5 sentences.**
 * 2) Complete your Transition Sentence using the following Prompt: How was the atmosphere during the time which your topic/event/person took place/existed the perfect time for a turning point in American History to occur?
 * 3) Insert your thesis.
 * 4) Mapping Sentences: In at least **3 Sentences**, briefly describe **3 supporting events** and/or people involved in your overall topic. **For each of these mapping sentences about sub-events/topics/people, if you create additional Annotated Bibliographies for each, I will give** __**10**__ **extra points/bibliography for each new event/person you add.**
 * 1) Voiced-Over Powerpoint Slideshow: __**Narrate**__ a slide show in which you have put in pictures, maps, posters, and any kinds of visual aids from the era in which your topic took place.
 * 2) Magazine Ad: Create a vibrant magazine advertisement to attract an audience to your topic. Use an __educational magazine__ such as: National Geographic, TIME, LIFE, etc. to base your advertisement's style on.
 * 3) Era-Based Communication Medium: The topic you chose has altered or changed an era in American History. Like the person/event you are studying, use a technological medium contemporary to that time. For example, if you are studying Franklin Delano Roosevelt, when he was president, he used radio to reach the American public in what were called “fireside chats”.

Formative Assessment:
 * 1) Review the Annotated Bibliographies you did.
 * 2) Evaluate how each source supports your thesis. Use your Writing Workshop PowerPoint to assist you in writing your evaluation. A proper evaluation of each source will take at least 3 sentences.
 * 3) Be sure to use a font that is a different color so that identifying your evaluation will be easier. Match the color code that is on the Writing Workshop PowerPoint.

Diagnostic Assessment: Create a **Research-Based Outline** **. ** (Complete during the last hour) Summative Assessment: Self-Assessment In this Summative Assessment, you will interact with your peers. Bring a copy of the Base your outline's revisions on the following rubric.


 * Day 4**


 * Formative Assessment:** Revisions for Research-Based Outlines are based on the different levels of review that you've accumulated.
 * Diagnostic Assessment:**Create Weebly SAMPLE WEBSITES AT: http://mtnhd.weebly.com/
 * Summative Assessment:** Practice Presentations for Homework

Day 5 Formative Assessment


 * Day 7**

Formative Assessment: Final Draft of Annotated Bibliography Diagnostic Assessment: Final Draft of Research-Based Outline Summative Assessment: Rough Draft #1

Unit Jigsaw Project Assigned; Rough Draft #1 Returned
 * Day 8**

Formative Assessment: Submit Unit 1 Intro to Learning Target by **Morning Break**. Diagnostic Assessment: Self-Assessment vs. Peer Review vs. Silva's Review #5 Summative Assessment: Rough Draft #2 Due at the End of the Day

Correctly-Formatted Final Draft Due E Day All Classes, Diagnostic and Summative Assessments Due at the End of E-G Day
 * Day 9**

Formative Assessment: Unit 1 Annotated Bibliography Due by **Morning Break** Diagnostic Assessment: Rough Draft #2 Returned Summative Assessment: **Final Draft Due End of the Day**

**Day 10 Shift to Unit Jigsaw Project**