Students will begin researching to find a key event coinciding with day and month of the student’s birth.  Click here for specific instructions guiding the research process.

Avoid natural disasters and births/deaths of famous people.  Hunt events that are newsworthy.

Research Help

• Click “Media Center” from the menu above.
• Click Library/Destiny.
• Click the “Visual” tab.
• Click the “History” icon with the two flags.
• Click the “This Date in History” icon.

Use these six sites to brainstorm possible topics before completing today’s handout.

Mock quiz for Anthem – Students will learn through this quiz how strong their reading retention is after reading only the day before.  Students should use this as an evaluation of how much more time should be invested in order to create good imagery while reading that will improve recall.

Learning the process necessary to complete a research project begins today with an introduction and a mock run-through seeing an overview of the project.  We will make up the research to simulate the end result, but next week we will work toward the same end while learning to document real research along the way.

Prompt and Mock Research Organizational Chart for group work.