Unit 6 - American Voices Research Project

DISTANCE LEARNING UPDATES

• Monday 3/16 and Tuesday 3/17
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VOCAB PROJECT (ongoing, more to come)

• Assignment
• Week 3 touch-base PPT
• VOCAB LIST TRACKER

AMERICAN VOICES RESEARCH RESOURCES (ongoing, more to come)

• 1 - Project Overview
• Calendar
• Malcolm Gladwell's article "Slackers" as model
• Malcolm Gladwell's article "Examined Life" (Stanley Kaplan) as model
• Overview of Project with StoryCorps (PPT)
• StoryCorps channel for fun
• Model essay based on Rocco's story
• Cover stories in American media to generate topic ideas
• The New Yorker
• The Economist
• National Review
• Scientific American
• The New Republic
• The Atlantic
• Wired (2017 is most current)
• Rolling Stone
• Esquire
• Psychology Today
• 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
• Collecting Secondary Sources with Synthesis in Mind - Annotated Bib Requirements (PPT)
• Model Annotated Bib
• Annotated Bib Graphic Organizer
• Working Outline
• Synthesizing Research
• Chart Method Sample Chart - feel free to make your own
• 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 - 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? 

CALENDAR (click here for larger view):