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=Possible Research Topics=

Statement of Purpose: I want to find out how __//(person)//__ was/is significant or controversial to __//(movement, industry, culture, etc.)//__ during __//(period of time)//__.

Langston Hughes Alberto Salazar/Running Wyclef Jean/Haiti and music Woody Guthrie/Folk Singing Bobby Orr/Hockey Zora Neale Hurston Yuri Gagarin/Cosmonaught Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss) Laika/First Dog in Space Virgil "Gus" Grissom/Mercury 7 Shirley Chisholm/Civil Rights Activist/Presidency Tommie Smith/Olympian '68 Frida Kahlo Diego Rivera Picasso A.A. Milne Maya Lin M.C. Escher James Balswin J.R.R. Tolkien Billie Holiday/"Strange Fruit" Leadbelly Robert B. Morrow Robert Johnson Frank Zappa Julia Child Fred Rogers Walt Disney Ernest Hemingway Maurice Sendak Harvey Milk Amy Tan Tupac Shakur H.A. and Margaret Rey Jack Kevorkian Bob Barker Peter Arnett Amelia Bloomer Ernie Banks Beatrix Potter Laura Ingalls Wilder Buckminster Fuller Walker Evans Joseph P. Kennedy E. Margaret Burbidge/Scientist-Astronomer Garry Trudeau Agnes Nixon F. Scott Fitzgerald Larry "Bozo" Harmon Yo Yo Ma Coco Chanel Stanley Kubrick Bob Marley William Faulkner Andy Warhol Orson Wells

Essential Questions
 * Who is this person (biography)
 * Where were/are they from (geographically) and how did that play in role in shaping their life?
 * When: what time period were they around in?
 * What did they do to that was significant to their movement/culture?
 * How are they still relevant?

Title of Unit: Information Literacy Freshmen Research Project Length of Unit: 10 sessions Topics: > ===John Palfrey: Rethinking Plagiarism in the Digital Age?=== > ====Project Information Literacy, "Smart Talks," no. 3, September 1, 2010, get into groups talk about it (give them 5 guided questions) and then get back together and each group reports.==== > https://wps.itslearning.com/Main.aspx?CourseID=40
 * It's Learning for class (where they will find bulletins and assignments), how to access Gmail from It's Learning (forwarding email to other email-- settings>add a forwarding address), settings to change password, labeling emails from teachers/subjects to help organize your email), calendar (adding a calendar, sharing, inviting) docs (create new, the different docs, share, upload, name, save link, organize, spreadsheet forula)
 * An intro to the assignment, tour of library: physical space,
 * digital library: Advanced Destiny (log-in, save sources). E-books reference- how to search on our main page. Find at least one print or e-book on your topic as your first source. and save source
 * noodletools-3.14 Independently use reading strategies such as skimming, note-making and reading for understanding to utilizing resources’ organizational aspects to choose appropriate information from print and electronic sources. (K-12 Library Standards)
 * evaulating sources online- using different search engines-- sweetsearch.com, refseek.com, advanced google
 * day of research/2 notecards
 * Have the kids read-
 * creative commons/internet archive- copyright- Video about about how everything is a remix
 * How to use Wikispaces or Glogster o (which tool?)
 * share and reflect

Objective of the assignment: Standards: