Thursday, December 4 th

1. Thursday, December 4th • Bellwork: Finish your butterfly if it’s not done yet (you have 15 minutes). If you are done, hole-punch your butterfly in the top of its wings and tie it to a string so it can be hung up. • When finished, boot up your computer and join the DyKnow Session • You can do Free Rice or Shelfari while everyone finishes up • Research • Taking notes • Keeping track of resources • Internet research Homework: Study for Vocabulary Quiz tomorrow

2. Mrs. Rainer’s Research Project: The Year I was Born • On the Internet and other approved databases, consult periodicals such as Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report for the month and year you were born. As you conduct your research, you can look for commercials, slogans, births, deaths, sports news, movies, books, plays, music, financial, national news, international news, and religious events. • Search for your birth date on the Internet, using the sites that I will give you later. Many of these sites give information for your birth date throughout history. To find more details for the month and year you were born, search your birth date and the following days for one month. • You will also write a “Where I’m From” poem to introduce your parents and family. There will be a lesson/review of this type of poetry. • Weave all of the information you find together into a PowerPoint Presentation. If you use information from a book, website, etc., it will have to be cited. You will include all information you used to prepare a Works Cited page. • Due Date for Final Project: _Wednesday, December 17th___

3. Mrs. Rainer’s Research Project: The Year I was Born Breakdown of Requirements 1. Source Cards You must gather information from many sources. Your sources will be from online databases of magazines and newspaper articles, books, and an encyclopedia. You will have at least 10 sources. You will need to keep a record of all of your sources by using source cards (5 X 8 index cards). On these cards, you will list the information about the source. You should make one card for each source and you will number these cards; you will put the same number on the note cards that you use on the source cards. Be sure to copy this information exactly. You will use it later to prepare your Works Cited page. These cards will follow MLA format. See the sources handout.

4. Mrs. Rainer’s Research Project: The Year I Was Born 2. Note Cards • As you examine each source, make notes of facts or quotations you might want to use in your power point presentation. Your notes should be direct quotations, summaries, or paraphrases. Put the subject, brief notes, and the source on each card. Follow the example below. You will need to have 20 note cards. • Summarizing – When you summarize, use your own words to write a short restatement of someone else’s ideas. It is much shorter than the original. • Skim the selection first to get the overall meaning. • Read the selection carefully, paying attention to key words and phrases. • List the main ideas on a scrap piece of paper. • Write your summary; restate the author’s main ideas in your own words. It should be much shorter than the original passage. Remember to focus only on one idea per note card. • Paraphrasing - When you paraphrase, use your own words to restate someone else’s ideas. • Skim the selection first to get the overall meaning. • Read the selection carefully, paying attention to key words and phrases. • List the main ideas on a scrap piece of paper. • Write your paraphrase; restate the author’s ideas in your own words; it’s about the same length as the original. Remember to focus on only one idea or concept per note card. • Quotations - When you quote directly, you include the exact words of the author and put quotation marks around them. • A quotation can be a single word or entire sentences. • Choose quotations carefully, keep them as brief as possible, and use them only when necessary. • Be sure that the capitalization, spelling, and punctuation are the same as in the original work. • Keep track of your sources and with who said what. NEVER, NEVER, NEVER use another author’s words as your own. This is called plagiarism and it is cheating. This will result in a ZERO and disciplinary action for cheating. Make sure you always cite, or add to you project, where you got your information.

5. Web Sites for research • The History Channel Link • http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/index.html • This Day in History • In The 80s • http://www.inthe80s.com/ • Profiles music, movies, fads and other details on the decade. There are also links to the 70s and 90s. • Calendar Home.com • http://www.calendarhome.com/clink/history.html • Historical Calendar Links • Uncle Woody’s Almanac • http://www.blamepro.com/cal/index.htm • What happened today in history? • Scope Systems • http://www.scopesys.com/anyday/ • Historic events and birthdays for every day of the year • Yahooligans! Link • http://www.yahooligans.com/docs/tdih/ • This Day in History • Yahoo! Link • http://features.yahoo.com/history/0222.html • This Day in History • dMarie Time Capsule • http://dmarie.com/timecap/ • On This Day in History • Kingwood College Library • http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade80.html • American Cultural History 1980-1989