Thirty-Seventh Class Period: Chapter 4 Vocabulary Quiz & Rough Draft of Research Paper Outline

Students have fifteen minutes to study at the beginning of class including time to review previous week's graded quiz.

Students take Chapter 4 Vocabulary Energizers quiz.

Students complete a rough outline of their research paper using previously organized note cards.

No Homework: Spring Break!

Thirty-Sixth Class Period: Organizing Note Cards

Students submitted note cards twenty-six to forty at the beginning of class.

Mr. Stone wrote instructions for organizing their note cards on the board.

Once you have finished your forty minimum note cards, complete the following steps:

Divide the cards into stacks by using your secondary/subtopic questions' keywords.

Organize each secondary/subtopic stack and separately rubberband each stack.

Check to make sure you have a diversity of sources used in each stack (two minimum, preferably three or more). Each stack will likely become a paragraph in your small paper (three to five pages).

Consider whether you have enough material--Does your material adequately answer your primary question?

Consider whether your five (or more) secondary questions fully/adequately answer your primary question.

Take more notes as needed.

Discard irrelevant notes. (I would not actually throw them out yet.)

Write a rough draft of an outline.



Homework: Review for tomorrow's quiz over Vocabulary Energizers chapters one to four.

Thirty-Fifth Class Period: Note Cards 11-25

Students submitted note cards one to twenty-five at the beginning of class.

They had class time to work on completing note cards twenty-six to forty.

Homework: Complete note cards twenty-six to forty.

Thirty-Fourth Class Period: More Note Cards

Students submitted Vocabulary Energizers Chapter 4 at the beginning of class. There are fifteen new words to learn this week:

odyssey
protean
fiasco
idiosyncrasy
quintessence
rankle
decimate
narcissism
incumbent
succumb
malady
malice
malinger
malefactor
malpractice

Students had class time to continue researching and writing note cards.

Homework: Finish note cards 11-25 to submit at the beginning of the next class period.

Thirty-Third Class Period: Chapter 3 Vocabulary Energizer Quiz

Students had fifteen minutes to review their last graded vocabulary quiz and their vocabulary books. After they took the quiz, which included all fifteen of the words from the current chapter and five selected words from the two previous chapter, they began work on Chapter 4 of Vocabulary Energizers.

Homework: Finish Chapter 4 of Vocabulary Energizers.

Note: Note cards 11-25 are due at the beginning of the second class period of next week.

Thirty-Second Class Period: First Ten Note Cards Due

Students submitted their first ten note cards for approval. They continued taking notes.

Homework: Study for Quiz over Vocabulary Energizers, Chapter 3. (Remember words from the previous chapters may be included.)

Note cards 11-25 are due at the beginning of the second class next week. The final fifteen are due at the end of third class next week.

Thirty-First Class Period: Note Taking

Students worked on writing their first ten note cards for their research papers.

Mr. Stone began checking bibliography cards and research "bubble" sheets/research pre-writing questions. (Students should have a key word underlined for each subsidiary/secondary-level question.)

Homework: Finish the first ten note cards.

Thirtieth Class Period: Introduction to Note-taking

Mr. Stone collected Chapter 3 of Vocabulary Energizers. (Students books will be returned tomorrow) Students should review the definitions for this weeks words (Making flash cards is an excellent way to study.):

mesmerize
martial
erotic
cupidity
philistine
catholic
jeopardize
precarious
foible
forte
apathetic
empathize
antipathy
pathos
psychopath

Students took notes on what to put on a note card. Mr. Stone distinguished between a paraphrase, a summary, and a quotation.

Homework: Students should finish their prewriting topic bubble sheet and underline the key word they have selected to represent each of the subtopics presented in their secondary level questions. Next period, students need to bring all of their sources to class and their last five bibliographic cards.

Twenty-Ninth Class Period: Ch. 2 Vocabulary Energizers Quiz

Mr. Stone will review the last test with students and allow them ten minutes of additional study time if their behavior merits it.

Quiz: Vocabulary Energizers Chapter 2

The pronunciation of the words for Chapter 3 will be practiced. Students will have time to work on completing the practice exercises for Chapter 3.

Homework: Complete Chapter 3 of Vocabulary Energizers.

Note: The final five bibliographic cards for the research paper are due at the beginning of the second class period next week (Tuesday/Wednesday depending on which class).

Twenty-Eighth Class Period: Final Day of Library Research

Students submitted there first five bibliographic cards for their research paper. They continued to research for five additional sources in the library.

Homework: Study for the Vocabulary Energizers Chapter 2 Quiz.

Twenty-Seventh Class Period: Library Research

Students showed their first source to Mr. Stone. They received five note cards to complete bibliographic cards for their first five sources. Students were directed to use their copy of Diana Hacker's Pocket Style Manual for MLA bibliographic format instructions. Mr. Stone suggested consulting Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL) if they did not have access to their Pocket Style Manual.

Homework: Finish locating five sources and writing a bibliographic card for each. (Note the source shown Mr. Stone today counts as one of the five.)

Twenty-Sixth Class Period: Introduction to the LLA Library

Mrs. Anjejo, LLA's 7-12 librarian, gave introductory lecture to students reviewing the Dewey Decimal System and the three major types of sources in the LLA 7-12 Library: books, periodicals, Internet databases. Comparing the need for a call number for a book to the need for an address to locate an unfamiliar house, she emphasized the importance of using the online catalog, writing down the call number of a chosen book, and then finding it on the shelf.

Mr. Stone explained the details for completing the research topic "bubble sheet," emphasizing the limitations of search engines by comparing them to the literal-mindedness of Kindergartners and first-graders. Students are to complete the sheet which requires search term variations.

Students need to find a minimum of ten sources for their research paper. At least one of the sources, must be a book.

Homework: Locate at least one source and bring the source/a printout/photocopy to class.

Twenty-Fifth Class Period: Chapter 1 Vocabulary Quiz

Students completed the Chapter 1 vocabulary quiz and began working on Chapter 2. Mr. Stone corrected Chapter 1 and went over the pronunciation of the words in Chapter 2.

Homework: Finish Chapter 2 of Vocabulary Energizers.

Note: Class will meet in the library for the first three periods of next week.

Twenty-Fourth Class Period: Writing Revealing Sentences

Students submitted the final draft of their description of a political cartoon.

Mr. Stone used a handout from eHow to explain who write "revealing" sentences to show the meaning of a vocabulary word. He advocated the tip from the site using the five W's: Who, What, When, Where, and Why. He noted how the example from the site failed to include all these; thus, the sentence did not fully reveal the vocabulary word's meaning.

Students had time to work on Chapter 1 of Vocabulary Engergizers and to make any final adjustments to their description papers before submitting them.

Homework: Finish Chapter 1 of Vocabulary Engerigzers.