Assignment 1: Research Questions and Report Planner
Complete the following assignment and submit your work to your teacher.
You can choose to use your Mindomo Group question or you can choose to come up with your own topic and then use the process below to help you generate a question.
Also, remember to use your inquiry planner thinking to help you complete your planner.
Use a Q-chart as a tool to help you develop at least 10 research questions that you may want to explore. Try to create a variety of different types of questions from the different quadrants of the Q-chart so that you can consider questions from different angles.
Add your questions to your Report Planner. Complete the planner.
MINDOMO: If you want to use the driving question from your Mindomo Group, you can. I still want you to generate some supporting questions. There may be questions from the group you can add to your planner or you can generate your own.
If you have completed the planner and have submitted it to me via the Assignment Submissions page, then you are ready to go on to the next lesson.
Comment on another student’s thinking on that slide
Finally, from this work and previous reading in the course answer the following question in preparation for tomorrow’s GHO in your notebook/digital document: (25m)
Define stereotype including a negative stereotype of Canada and/or Canadians
Independent Reading Assessment: How to answer a test question.
As a senior student, every time you answer a question when the instructions ask for paragraph format and evidence, it needs to look a lot like this answer. You had five questions to answer. You need to have five answers like this one.
Also, you must proofread your work. You should no longer be making the types of errors you see below:
Revise your independent novel reading assessment answers and re-submit to the Assignment Submission page. Due Friday, March 31, 2017.
Wednesday
Read your novel for 20 minutes.
**Creating and voting on inquiry questions**
PROPOSE inquiry questions that you would like to investigate within the broader theme of “What does it mean to be a great Canadian?” and to Dotstorming.
VOTE: Students get 3 votes each. At the end, we will take the most popular, well-written inquiry questions and break up into groups to research and investigate these questions.
TOMORROW: A link to a survey will be posted in the D2L community so that students may each choose the inquiry question they would like to work on.
Sample proposed inquiry questions
→ If you didn’t live in Canada, would you want to?
→ How is multiculturalism working to help Canadians develop a collective identity?
→ What role do stereotypes play in defining who we are as a country?
→ How are Canadians defined by their geography?
Please post your questions and vote here: Dotstorming
If not done, complete your independent reading assessment revisions and re-submit via the Assignment Submission page.
If not done, complete your VoiceThread Collaborative Analysis
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Thursday
Read for 20 minutes
Complete your book review revisions
Use the feedback I have provided to you
Add a hook
Add a single sentence paragraph
Use punctuation for emphasis (italics, ellipse, dash)