April 23rd, 2019

Today you will continue researching your topic...

You MAY have a one-on-one check-in with Mrs. Stewart about your research process, use of supporting research questions and documentation of notes

You will also determine 3 "critical friends" in which you will receive feedback from them throughout this unit.  You will meet with one of your critical friends in class today to get feedback about how you are organizing your research notes so far...

Helpful Resources for Today:

• ​Unit 4 Webpage -- many resources here to help you with this unit
• Research & Note-taking Tips (Google Slides)
• Guiding/Supporting Research Guidelines Tips for developing better research questions
• Internet Research Tips ( Google doc)
• Research Tools -- you NEED these!!! (trust me)

​​Research Portfolio Exemplars:

• Exemplars - Developing and Evaluating Supporting Questions (Google Doc)
• Exemplars - Research Notes (collection from various research portfolios)
• Exemplar - “Power” Student Research Portfolio​

HW: keep working on research...

Keep researching... work on Tasks 2-4. Be sure to use supporting questions to guide your research.  Consider which of the case studies (examples) you may want to focus your attention on (see image). 

While more than one case study helps provide corroboration to show this issue exists across time (history) and space (geography) and helps to find patterns, you may find one case study of particular interest--and a perspective within one case study that seems to be a voice that has been marginalized, misrepresented or is altogether missing or powerless. If you do, it is perfectly fine to focus on one case study more than the others for your research.