This week students turned in their topics and received an information packet and timeline of check points. The Academic Fair project and research paper is to be completed at home. At school we will be guiding your child through the research process. Mr. Eng will soon be teaching how to color code and use notecards to record information. Ms. Noonan will be teaching the students how to find proper websites to obtain their information, and will be giving a handout for students to record their sources for each resource they take information from. I will be showing students how to use Ms. Noonan's handout to easily write their bibliography. Lastly, Ms. Tresselt and I will be going over how to organize their final notecards to write their rough draft with citations in their OWN words. Copying word for word will not be accepted unless it is a quote that will be cited with a page number.
Please hang up the timeline sheet in a good spot to remind your child of the check in dates. Falling behind on this project can make this an unpleasant experience. Our goal is to show students that breaking up a large project into small parts removes the overwhelming "big picture" that they first feel when given a research project. If you have any questions, just let me know.
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