Suggestions: How to Direct Students Writing Research Papers

How to Write a Research Paper in 11 Steps

http://student-tutor.com/blog/how-to-write-a-research-paper-in-11-steps/

Scaffolding Methods for Research Paper Writing

http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/scaffolding-methods-research-paper-1155.html

Teacher Guide for Teaching Research

https://assets.cengage.com/gale/tlist/additional/questia_teachers-guide.pdf

Students As Authentic Researchers: A New Prescription for the High School Research Assignment

http://www.ala.org/aasl/sites/ala.org.aasl/files/content/aaslpubsandjournals/slr/vol2/SLMR_AuthenticResearchers_V2.pdf

Sample Guideline Research Paper: English 10

https://www.murrieta.k12.ca.us/cms/lib5/ca01000508/centricity/domain/1698/sophomore_research_packet.pdf

Sample Guideline RESEARCH PAPER: English 10

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Sample Eleventh Grade Research Writing Student Handbook

https://www.pwcs.edu/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=612821

Sample MLA Formatted Paper

https://depts.washington.edu/owrc/Handouts/Hacker-Sample%20MLA%20Formatted%20Paper.pdf\

And here is great input from our friends.

How to Make Writing Research Papers Relevant for Students

https://www.edutopia.org/research-papers-relevant-rigorous

8 Reasons Why Students Should Still Write Research Papers

https://www.teachthought.com/pedagogy/8-reasons-why-students-should-still-write-research-papers/

And never forget to encourage your student writers that they are well able to discover information and brilliantly express important ideas in clarity with confidence. Write on!

Happy Second Semester

How quickly we got to the second semester! 

Now it is our chance to read our novels together.

We will also concentrate on grammar/usage, and enhancing our writing with more informed use of various types of sentences and use of punctuation to express our thoughts. We will strengthen our vocabulary with academic vocabulary studies.

I view this as the English/Language Arts concentration quarter-as the previous semester included the first quarter as Writing Strategies concentration and the second as Reading Comprehension/Fluency concentration.

And, of course, more Shakespeare!

Students will probably need a new Interactive Notebook, but not a new journal/composition book.

Parents, if you have any questions, suggestions or comments,

 please use RenWeb to email me. Students, too.

This Week in MzT's Classroom 10/1/18-10/5/18

This week classes are finishing presentations of alternative reading reports. How fun this is!

Our study of poetry will continue--Grades 12 and 11 will develop a Literary Analysis Essay. The students may choose between  "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost, and "The Rainy Day," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Grades 8, 9, and 10 will write Compare/Contrast essays on those two poems. Quite a good challenge! Grade 7 will develop a graphic organizer comparing the two poems.

Monday 
Grades 10 and 11
               Metaphors
               
The art of the metaphor - Jane Hirshfield

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0edKgL9EgM

HW Summarize notes from the Elements of Poetry.

Grades 12, 9, 8, 7
Finish Alternative Reading Projects.

HW Summarize notes from the Elements of Poetry.

Tuesday
Grades 10 and 11
Alternative Book Reports
HW Develop Outline for Essay

Grade 12, 9, 8, 7
Review elements of poetry. Discuss metaphor
The art of the metaphor - Jane Hirshfield

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0edKgL9EgM

Develop graphic organization for Compare and Contrast Essay of Frost and Longfellow.

HW fill in graphic organizer.

Wednesday
Grades 11 and 10
Alternative Book Reports
Discussion of Metaphor

Grade 12, 9, 8, 7
Discussion of Metaphor
Development of a Graphic Organizer

Thursday
Grades 12, 11,
Collaborative Teams discuss Rough Drafts for Literary Analysis Essay on choice between  Frost and Longfellow.

HW Write Rough draft for Literary Analysis Essay.

Grades 10, 9, 8,and 7.

Collaborative Teams discuss Rough Drafts for Compare/Contrast Essay of Frost and Longfellow.

HW Grades 10, 9, and 8 Write Rough Draft for Compare/Contrast Essay of Frost and Longfellow.
HW Grade 7 has a choice to fill in a Graphic Organizer or a Rough Draft for an Essay.

Friday
Grades 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7
Grades 12 and 11 will write a Literary Analysis Essay on their choice between the poems of Frost and Longfellow.
Grades 10, 9, 8 will write a Compare/Contrast Essay on the two poems.
Grade 7 will have a choice of filling a Graphic organizer or writing a Compare/Contrast Essay.