April 19/20: continue research...

critical friend check-in:

Today you will meet participate in another Critical Friend meeting. This time, with a different person from the first meeting.  Prior to meeting with your Critical Friend, please take a look at the following Research Portfolio exemplars:

• Exemplars - Developing and Evaluating Supporting Questions (Google Doc)
• Exemplars - Research Notes (collection from various research portfolios)
• Exemplar - “Power” Student Research Portfolio
• Exemplar - "Endangered Cultures" Research Portfolio 2017
• Exemplar - "Endangered Cultures" Research Porfolio 2017 (Structured differently)

Class time: continue research...

Keep researching.
Work independently and quietly.
Stay focused.

Helpful Resources:

• Unit 4 Summative Presentation (Google Slides with instructions, helpful links, daily tasks, etc.)
• Inquiry/Research Rubric with “I Can” statements
• Research & Note-taking Tips (Google Slides)
• Guiding/Supporting Research Guidelines Tips for developing better research questions
• Research Tools -- you NEED these!!! (trust me)
• Guide to OPVL - Questions to ask about my source to do proper OPVL
• OPVL Tutorial Video - Explanation of what it is (Indiana)
• Sample OPVLs - 3 good samples  + 1 non-example (did not meet expectations)
• MLA citation rules - OWL Purdue University

HW: Keep researching...

At this point, you should have at least 6 sources. If not, get caught up.  If you do, keep pushing further to gather more data, a wider variety of evidence (different perspectives, literary sources, different types of data/evidence such as images, statistics, quotes, etc.)

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