7th Grade--Non-Fiction: Biography Research
The purpose of this project is to allow students to select an inspiring
hero/heroine, political figure, musician, artist etc…of choice that will
allow them to learn an accurate account of the subject’s life. At the end of
this project, the students will be able to orally present the “new” knowledge
they acquired from the biography book and research and create a 3-Dimensional
Biography Cube Project that will display the “new” knowledge/unknown facts
that they acquired from reading the biography book and conducting Internet
Research.
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8th Grade--Non-Fiction: Gun Control Research and the Persuasive Essay
The purpose of this unit it to teach students how to formulate a persuasive
argument. In this unit, students will be able to improve their research and
academic writing skills by mastering the four basic elements of writing which
include the following: Focus, Support, Organization and Conventions. In
addition, students will learn a variety of creative writing skills (i.e.
anecdote) and understand it's effectiveness in both an exposition as well as
a persuasive writing piece.
During this unit, my students will embark upon a varitey of writing
workshops, which will include drafting, revising, editing and publishing.
They will learn how to take their writing to another level by conducting
research and including the aquisition of "new" knowledge from both print and
electronic primary "reliable" sources in their research paper. In addition,
they will be able to take stat's/data from their research and present it in a
PowerPoint Presentation.
