Research Project

Very few questions were asked during the Zoom earlier. I would like to remind everyone that asking questions is nothing to be ashamed of.

This assignment is going to have 2 parts. Make sure you both and not just one of them because these will be graded separately.

I don't want to make the videos too long (and my free account only allows me 15 minutes per video anyway ^^;) so I'll try to have separate videos per part needed. This will probably be better for those who are only wanting to look at specific information anyway.

Here's a short video on how to navigate your Google Classroom to see all the information you need before starting on your assignment:

I'm trying out creating jump links (quick links) so I will have sub-topics according to the questions the students asked during the Zoom meeting.

Part 1: Research Practice

• Where to find the Important (Main) Idea and details

Part 2: Informational Travel Research

• Review of Terms (Thesis Statement, Types of Hooks, 3rd Person POV)
• Is this a 3.8 Paragraph? How many sentences?
• What should you RESEARCH? (Topic of Research)
• Outline
• Mini Research Paragraph

Optional Journal for extra credit
Any good news?         

Part 1: Research Practice (30pts):

Where do you get the answers to the right side of the page?

            From the left side of course!

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• Most of the time, the main idea or the Important Idea of the paragraph is located in the first sentence that essentially functions as the topic sentence (TS).
• The 3 Details being asked are the focus of the paragraph, usually, if it involves statistics, or unchangeable facts (like dates, names, and events) are included in those.
• The Source for this assignment will just involve the title and writer of the article on the left side. 

This video will show you slide by slide what you need to do:

Part 2: Informational Travel Research (40pts):

Review of Terms:

1. Thesis Statement - This is 1-2 sentences, in the Introductory paragraph written, after the HOOK.
                It is the main point of your essay, it may describe or enumerate what the other paragraphs will talk about.

                Thesis Statement vs Topic Sentence

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                While the Thesis Statement is in the middle or in the last sentence of the introductory

                paragraph, the Topic Sentence is usually the first sentence in each of the body paragraphs.

2. Types of HOOKs:

                The first sentence in the introductory paragraph.

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3. Use only 3rd Person POV for this paper. What is 3rd POV??

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Is this a 3.8 Paragraph? How many sentences are needed?

This video will show you (using the outline) how many sentences minimum you have to do:

What should you research?

            Head to page 5 on the file or look here:

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This video will show you my own brainstorming process that you can also do:

Outline (10pts):

Here's the step by step process of writing your outline.

Mini Research Paragraph (30pts):

Let me take you step by step through the process of writing.

It is very important that you intentionally work on spicing up your writing for you to not lose points.

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Optional Journal for extra credit (max 10pts):

Sample dialogue: "I'm hungry again," I complained to my mom for the fifth time that day.

Any good news?

Pace yourself, you have until May 1st, 2020. Please make sure you do quality work the first time so that you will not have to re-do any paper. This is counted as two grades. ^^