Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Week 9: March 4-8

UPCOMING DUE DATES

Wednesday 3/6: Research Interview Questions Due
Monday 3/11: Research Interview MP3 due
Monday 3/18: Interview Transcript and Summary Due
Tuesday 3/19: Secondary Research first set of 2 Annotated Articles with Reflection due
Wednesday 3/20: Follow Up Interview Questions Due
Friday  3/22: Secondary Research second set of 2 Annotated Articles with Reflection due
Monday 3/25: Follow Up MP3 and Transcript Due

Thursday 3/7: Third Biography Reading Check (see schedule below)
Thursday 3/14: Biography Parallel Final Assessment


RECENT HANDOUTS AND PRESENTATIONS

 

Monday 3/4

  • Turn in Preliminary Research
  • Notes on how to think through the paper as a whole to help develop interview questions -- you need to anticipate how you will connect the secondary research with the primary research and your own commentary and reflection.  Thinking ahead will ensure that you get the kind of depth and detail from your interview upon which you can build the rest of your paper.
  • Model the connection between primary experience with secondary information and commentary
  • Watch "Family Man" from Story Corps.  Work with a partner to devise the following:
    • five more interview questions -- what else would you need to know about the father's or the son's life?
    • three research topics -- what connection do you see between the life of the interview subject and the times in which they lived?  How did historical events or cultural norms shape their experiences?
    • reflection and commentary -- what values, archetypes, principles, ideals, challenges or ideas do you think that the family shows us about America? In what way do they represent our notion of what it means to be American?

  •   Work on interview questions -- due Wednesday

Tuesday  March 5

  • Take notes on how to conduct a good interview
  • Watch James Lipton's interview of Matt Damon on "Inside the Actor's Studio" to see how you can start you interview in a way that will put you and your interview subject at ease.
  • What not to do -- Ms. Bowen's train wreck of an interview
  • Work on Interview Questions

Wednesday March 6

  • Work Day -- either read your biography, get caught up on missing research assignments or finish your interview questions
  • Read Model Essay if no productive work happens

Thursday  March 7

  • Biography Reading Quiz
  • Continue with model essay
  • Begin thinking about how to concept map your topic

Friday March 8

  • Book Groups -- one of the last ones before your test -- make it count
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