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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.







        






           

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