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Week #2: Topic Selection and Thesis Statements

All assignments are due on Sunday. If you are having trouble with any aspect of this, please email me and then your peers for help. If you wait until Sunday to ask questions that prevent you from finishing, you will be held accountable. Manage your time accordingly.

Students will follow the [|Close Reading PowerPoint], then find a non-fiction article related to their topic to close read and discuss. Links to article and response/discussion to be posted on portfolio. || || Students and teacher will have a live discussion about research questions, how to form them, and students will then form their own based on the topic they chose. Make research question in Google Docs and post on your portfolio. || || Students will follow the [|PowerPoint] (created by Ms. Farmer) and discover how to write a thesis statement based on the topic they chose. They will write one and save to Google Docs and post to their portfolio. ||
 * Topic || Tools || Task ||
 * Close Reading || Internet; Wiki; PowerPoint ||
 * Research Question || Skype; Wiki; Google Docs
 * Research Question || Google Docs; Wiki || Students will read each others' research questions and critique them. Students will respond to research questions and post to your portfolio. ||
 * Thesis statements || Internet, PowerPoint, Wiki, Google Docs
 * Thesis statements || Google Docs, Wiki ||< Students will access group member’s thesis statement and rewrite it on the Google Doc. ||