Sept. 26/27: Finalize Formative Research Portfolio for Ancient Civilization

Today's class will focus on finalizing your research portfolio so that you can receive feedback on your research methods and research note-taking skills. 

Your ancient civilizations table of notes + summary + bibliography (within your Unit 1 research portfolio) is due by the end of today's class.

Your formative work should include the following completed by the end of class today: 

• You should have 3-5 sources. Sources can include some sources I've provided and/or sources you've found on your own. 
• Research notes should include "evidence" notes from each source as well as "QCI" notes (your ideas, questions, etc.) for each of your sources.  
  
• "Evidence" can and should be varied and include: facts (names, dates, statistics), general background information, quotations from the source, images (maps, data charts, photos, drawings, etc.)
  
• Notes should be organized in a manner that makes it easy for you to go back and find details needed for historical explanations. Your notes should have some degree of organization (categorized with subheadings, etc.)  
  
• "evidence" and "QCI" notes should both relate to and reflect the details needed to answer your supporting research questions.  Be sure you have been taking notes and recording your own ideas that help you answer your research question(s). To do otherwise is off-topic and not demonstrating effective research skills.

You will receive a formative score and receive feedback on the strengths and areas to work on improvement.  

Keep in mind that your research notes will eventually be assessed summatively (summative research portfolio due date is Oct. 4 for A Blocks and Oct. 7 for B Blocks) 

Based on formative feedback received, students should revise and improve any notes in this table prior to submitting them summatively.

Any work that was "incomplete" or below the "meets" standard in the formative assessment should be improved by the summative due date.

Familiarize yourself with The Silk Road:  

• Silk Road Documents Packet