Thursday, December 29, 2011

IEW U.S. History - Week Fifteen

Week Fifteen

Put away your white boards and find a pencil.

Hand out vocab test – 10 minutes

Get out your U.S. History Student book and your SRN.

Today, we will be learning how to add drama to your report. We will be adding dramatic openers and closers to the beginning and end of the report.

These are complete sentences that will open your report. Their purpose is to grab your readers’ attention and make them want to read on.

Turn to page 46 in your SRN. We will be reading over different types of dramatic openers.

Now turn to page 95 in your History student book. Let’s read over these openers, and you tell me which type each is.

Who can give me an example of an opener that they may want to use for their report?

Just a word of caution. You may have to add another sentence or two to connect your dramatic opener to the beginning of your report. That’s ok.

Now, once you’ve chosen a dramatic opener, you should try to add a final clincher to the end of your report that reflects or repeats the general ideas or words of your dramatic opener. The opener and closer with tie your report together.

(Read the opening part of the report on page 95. Try to come up with a clincher that would reflect that – p. 96) You may also need to add some words or a sentence to transition to the final clincher.

Read “Polishing the Rough Draft” on p. 96. (Turn with me and write down our ideas.)

Penned thoughtfully

Drafted meticulously

Composed masterfully

Completed diligently

Framed painstakingly

It would also be tempting to use the word said or says in this report. But remember, it is a banned word. What are some words we can use instead? (look on p. 21 of your SRN)

Now, let’s add some –ly words to these verbs.

Also, in your rough draft, look for places to add quality adjectives to describe nouns such as colonists, King George, and the Declaration. Before you begin your final draft, try to get your rough draft as good as you can get it.

The last thing to add to your report is a Bibliography. Moms, it is up to you whether you want the younger students to do one of these or not.

Turn to p. 18 in your SRN.

Use this page as an example when writing your bibliography. A bibliography simply tells the reader where you got your information. It is appropriate to give credit where credit is due. This is especially important when you are using direct quotes.

Assignment: Write your final draft this week. Turn it in next Monday.

Also, we will start next week on our Faces of History Project. We will be taking several weeks to write a research paper on a famous person from the American Revolution. This could be a political figure or an artist, a writer, or a preacher.

This week, choose who you will be writing about and see if you can find some information about that person. You can look in encyclopedias, history textbooks, short children’s book, reference book, or Internet article. (If you use the internet, you can only use it as one source and it cannot be Wikipedia.)

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