Today's objectives:
By the end of today's lesson, students will have learned how to use the internet to find background information about their author’s life and to put the book in context and practiced putting a book in context for the research paper (using “Everyday Use” as sample text).
Agenda:
1) STAR Prep team competition [30 min]
2) SSR in individual texts [30 min.]
3) Modeling of research an author’s life online [30 min.]
a) Why start (but not end) with Wikipedia? (i.e., why is Wikipedia not a valid academic source?)
b) What information do I need to write down when I visit a website?
c) What information am I looking for? What’s relevant to writing this part of the paper?
HW: Research your author and answer the research questions. Be sure to write down the website's name, the person/company/organization that published it, the URL, and the date you accessed the information for every website that you get information from. This is due on Thursday (4/29) for 1st period; Friday (4/30) for 2nd period; and Tuesday (5/4) for 5th and 6th periods because of our STAR testing schedule.
