How well can you research?

How do other cultures celebrate Thanksgiving? What family traditions do they hold?

This assignment was designed to see how well you can find information, use information, and write a simple paragraph or two.

In an email to Mr. Franklin (or blogged on your Blogger), you will complete the following:

1) Find information on Thanksgiving traditions.
2) Paraphrase the information.
3) Write a 150-word essay about what you found.
4) Where did you find your information? Provide me the website you found your information.
5) How did you find the website and WHY did you select that website?

Due Monday after Thanksgiving break.

Using Information! (Day 2)

What does it mean to use information?

How do you tell a story?

To me, writing a research story is like writing a story. Write a story about the research. Make sure you use details from the research that you found. The story can be something that is found in a newspaper, a magazine, or even a story in a short story book.

The story needs to be at least 250 words. It needs to incorporate one quote (word for word from the article you found).

Be creative!

Using Information!

Guiding Question: What does it mean to use information?

This mini-project is a 2-step project.
1) Today, we are going to look up information using a database. This is a place where we can retrieve quality information.
2) Tomorrow, we are going to use the information that we find today to create a short story about the topic.

Go to http://perspectiveslibrary.wordpress.com
Click on the 'Library Resources' tab.
Click on 'Electronic Resources. . .'
Scroll down to ABC-Clio. Click on one of the different databases. The username AND password are 0400.
Using one of their databases, find information about a topic that you're interested in.
Read about the article.
Post on your blog the following items:

• Summary
• Supporting details from the article
• Keywords, keyphrases
• Questions you have
• Citation for the website

Winning Speech

Watch the screen.