Entry: 1)
Spelling: 5 Words; --- choose your five spelling words from your Personal Spelling List and write them in the first column of your Weekly Word Study Sheet. Homework due tomorrow.
Then start 2)
2) Be prepared for discussion about these questions at 11:40 (Panel Experts).
How have the people and animals living in the arctic Beaufort Sea area adapted to their extreme environments? To be prepared, find your requirements for your research and continue your research. If you research, you may continue the project. Remember your google search techniques:
Use double quotations (“ “)
use to look for words in exactly the order in which you enter them
- "arctic fox"
- "polar bear"
Try minus sign (‐)
use to exclude a word from your results
- vikings ‐minnesota
- "polar bear" -grizzly
Add a site request
site:edu
site:org
site:gov
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Goal Review: Prewriting Strategies to create researched presentation: research, paraphrasing, key words, spelling, citing sources, draft, summaries, gists
Power Writing on research topic; highlight key words; gist statements.
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Presentation Research
Project: We have been asked to create a presentation as part of International Polar Year. We must prepare a brief (approximately 5 minute) presentation to persuade the countries of the United Nations of the interconnectedness of changes in the polar environments, their respective community, and the global community.
Learning Goals
Use the writing process to gather ideas, draft information, revise for clarity, edit for readability, and publish for persuasion.
Understand how life adapts to live in the Arctic. Understand what affects life in the Arctic. Anaylze the connection of those effects on the Arctic, our community, and in the world.
Gathering Ideas: Research Strategies Review
Prewriting Strategies to create researched presentation: research, paraphrasing, key words, spelling, citing sources, draft, summaries, gist
Look at your notes and label them to show you can: (These you should already have done):
___ Paraphrase notes using main ideas and facts section by section.
___ Add your connections (opinions, experiences, knowledge, feelings).
___ Use your own words (paraphrase)
___ Identify key words.
___ Check spelling.
___ Write your source.
Identify in your entry tasks where you can:
___ Begin a draft
___ Paraphrase (use your own words)
___ Identify key words (labels, highlighting)
___ Use correct spelling
___ Identify your source
___ Write a summary (briefly explain main ideas in your own words)
___ Write a twenty-word gist statement that includes all the main ideas in your research
___ Identify addition questions and needed facts
How will these research and writing process strategies help you create your persuasive presentation?
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11:40: Volunteers play experts in a panel discussion to answer questions from the audience.
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