On my own website, you can learn about how students chose topics and you can download the worksheet that I used to guide them towards their choice.
Lesson Planning and the Common Core: A Unit Based on TED.com | Edutopia - 0 views
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The first thing I did was get the students familiar with the Persuasive/Memoir speech patterns that so many of the TED speeches possess. Many of the presentations, regardless of the length, whether they are 3 minutes or 23 minutes, tend to some share key common traits like: Hook Background Information Narrative Evidence Commentary Theme Call to Action Visuals
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1. Metasearching using dogpile What I like about this is that on the page where your results are listed, it categorizes your results in ways that might behoove better research. If the student types in "global warming," then it asks if you would also like results that only focus on "causes of global warming," "effects of global warming," and so on. 2. Google Advanced Search Obviously, the more specific you search, the less work you have to do. Let Google do the work by spending just a little time creating parameters for your results. 3. Google Scholar This can be a little heady, but it has also led to some really interesting results. 4. Reading URLs What does a .org mean? .gov? .edu? What symbols may indicate personal sites? Reading the sentences of the URL is the first step in reliable searching online.
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We've all been there before-sitting in Mrs. Thompson's (or whoever's) high school English class-getting grilled about proper grammar for essay writing:"Never use first or second person.""Never start a sentence with but or and.""Never end a sentence with a preposition.""And never, ever write a paragraph that's only one sentence long."What's the problem with these rules?
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