05.19 - Problem Discussion and Outlines

In the first half of class today, we discussed people's perspectives on the problems that they are researching and attempting to help solve through their project. Everyone had the first few minutes to respond to the prompt below and then we spent time discussing the responses that people generated and others' reactions to those ideas.

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Next, we returned to the work yesterday that was focused on creating an outline and using research notecards to fill in evidence for subclaims on the outlines that we started last week. If people found they were lacking sufficient evidence for a subclaim, they should do some research to find information related to this subclaim and then create notecards around the subclaim to use on their outline.

While everyone was working on this work, I checked in individually with people to assess progress and answer any questions on the following assignments:

- Project focus declaration
- Thesis and claim creation
- Problem sources
- Problem notecards
- Outline

We will continue with this work tomorrow.

Resources:

• Civic Action Project: Guiding Questions

• Searches

• Google

• Google Scholar

• Marvel Student Research Database (available inside the school)

• Google Cheat Sheet Search Tips

• Google for Research: Search Tips

• Sources and Notecards

• Website citation sheet

• Source citation sheet

• Model Sources and Notecard Spreadsheet 

• Outlines

• Civic Action Project: Thesis and Claim Creation Sheet

• Civic Action Project: Outline 

Submitted Today:

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Homework:

• Use the thesis, claims, and sub-claims created in class to begin creating your outline. Use the outline format explained above and paste in relevant evidence beneath sub-claims from your notecards
• If pasting in notecard evidence beneath the sub-claims reveals that you do not have evidence for some sub-claims, return to research and find sources that give you information on those sub-claims.