Backgrounding the Holocaust

Aim: How do we research answers to our own questions? 

Journal Prompt #10:Research Strategy
Describe your step-by-step plan for researching the answers to the questions that you and your group generated yesterday. If you were not here yesterday, then generate at least one question about the Holocaust using the DOK Question Stem resource.

In preparing to read Night by Elie Wiesel, we are researching the Holocaust. Each student has completed the first two columns of a KWL chart. In groups, students have shared their "W's" and agreed on which questions to research.

When researching, you should always cite at the very minimum two sources for your information. Why do you think this is so?

Today, each group will research their questions and chart their answers. Each chart MUST include these elements:

• A title or the question.
• The answer to the question.
• At least two sources citing where you found the information.
• Names of group members who participated.

Posters will be graded based on the critical thinking level of the question that is researched as well as the completeness of the answer, creativity, writing conventions, and effort. (See rubric.)

Each group must present their poster at the end of class. Each student is responsible as well for turning in their own completed KWL sheet.

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Standards
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.7
Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words in order to address a question or solve a problem.

Opening an Engrade Account

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Quick Write: Evaluate your progress in this class, supporting your opinion with specific and relevant evidence in a well-organized paragraph.

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