New Journalism - In Cold Blood and American Voices Research

UPCOMING DATES TO NOTE (major assignments, see calendar for daily work/homework)

• Friday 3/22 - Rough Draft due - you will print two copies at the beginning of class
• Thursday 3/28 - Final Draft due - upload to turnitin by 11:59pm.
  You should already have access to the class account but here are instructions should you have any problems.

AMERICAN VOICES RESEARCH RESOURCES (ongoing, more to come)

• 1 - Project Overview and Calendar
• Malcolm Gladwell's article "Slackers" as model
• StoryCorps channel for fun
• Model essay based on Rocco's story
• 2 - Project Proposal
• 3 - Interview Plan and Questions (a resource not an assignment)
• 4 - Interview Recording and Transcript
• 5 - Secondary Research Plan 
• 6 - Annotated Bib Assignment
• Model Annotated Bib
• Annotated Bib Graphic Organizer
• Working Outline
• Synthesizing Research
• Model Outline 1
• Model Outline 2
• Rough Draft
• Narrative
• Expository
• Revision
• Revision PowerPoint
• Requirements and Revision Checklist
• Peer Revision
• Paragraphing Logic from Purdue Owl
• Lead-Ins and Citations
• Conciseness
• To Be Verbs
• Works Cited formatting
• MLA formatting
• Crash Course series on Navigating Digital Information
  (thanks to Kelly for this tip! This series is so good and necessary - not just for school but for life in our echo chamber of online lives!)
• Episode 1 - Navigating Digital Information #1
• Episode 2 - The Facts about Fact Checking
• Episode 3 - Check Yourself with Lateral Reading
• Episode 4 - Who Can You Trust? 

LORRAINE HANSBERRY'S RAISIN IN THE SUN RESOURCES

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