In well written paragraphs, to the best of your ability answer the following questions:

• What is academic research?
• How is academic research different from high school research?
• How can a student best present research findings to an academic audience?

You may use the internet to assist you in answering these questions. However, if you quote a website, you must cite it.

This is due at the end of the class period.

Day

 

1

Teaching Point: To access and engage in higher level thinking and writing skills through the continuation of the Physical and Social Sciences unit.


Assessment: Students will complete a jigsaw activity, analyzing various scholastic articles and short stories in small groups. They will utilize different literary lenses to further analyze each text.

Strategy: Students will complete a jigsaw activity, analyzing various scholastic articles and short stories in small groups. They will utilize different literary lenses to further analyze each text. They will answer in-depth questions about the texts and have mini discussions with their peers.

Materials: textbooks, texts, post its, writing utensils, highlighters

2

Teaching Point: To access and engage in higher level thinking and writing skills through the continuation of the Physical and Social Sciences unit.


Assessment: Students will continue to complete a jigsaw activity, analyzing various scholastic articles and short stories in small groups. They will utilize different literary lenses to further analyze each text.

Strategy: Students will continue to complete a jigsaw activity, analyzing various scholastic articles and short stories in small groups. They will utilize different literary lenses to further analyze each text. They will answer in-depth questions about the texts and have mini discussions with their peers.

Materials: textbooks, texts, post its, writing utensils, highlighters

3

Teaching Point: To access and engage in higher level thinking and writing skills through the continuation of the Physical and Social Sciences unit.


Assessment: Students will finish completing a jigsaw activity, analyzing various scholastic articles and short stories in small groups. They will utilize different literary lenses to further analyze each text.

Strategy: Students will finish completing a jigsaw activity, analyzing various scholastic articles and short stories in small groups. They will utilize different literary lenses to further analyze each text. They will answer in-depth questions about the texts and have mini discussions with their peers.

Materials: textbooks, texts, post its, writing utensils, highlighters

4

Teaching Point: To access and engage in higher level thinking and writing skills through the continuation of the Physical and Social Sciences unit.


Assessment: Students will have the opportunity to peer edit their mini papers, due at the start of the class period, before handing them in. After this, students will be given the opportunity to partake in a scholarly-article Sustained Silent Reading Day, which will help students work towards an idea for their upcoming research papers.

Strategy: Students will have the opportunity to peer edit their mini papers, due at the start of the class period, before handing them in. After this, students will be given the opportunity to partake in a scholarly-article Sustained Silent Reading Day, which will help students work towards an idea for their upcoming research papers.

Materials: articles, textbooks, texts, post its, writing utensils, highlighters