Personal Expert Unit
Become an EXPERT on a Famous ATHLETE/PLACE/THING of YOUR CHOICE!
Objective: Students will become experts on the famous folk or topic that is hand-picked by your teacher, and then present those findings to the class.
DEADLINES!
11/18: (beginning of the hour): Publish ___5__ hours of research and submit 50 Cornell Notes from 5 Sources, a Working Outline, and a Work Cited page.
11/20: begin presentations.
11/21: Peer editing.
12/1: Publish entire paper for teacher grading including Working Outline and Work Cited
Monday, 11/10:Choose a topic begin reading, taking Cornell Notes, developing your outline, and including all your sources on a Work Cited page.
Criteria:
1. Male/Female,
2. Ethnicity,
3. Nation/Part of the World,
4. Sport,
5. Inspiring/Crazy/Complicated/Similar to one of the five in a certain way/Other
You give me your preferences on all 5 criteria (if they matter), and then I give you a topic. Then, you begin reading (Wikipedia first, although it's not an official site, you should use it to organize your preliminary outline, and it should list multiple other credible sources).
Tuesday: Continue the process of becoming an expert on your topic. Read begin identifying sources, creating cornell notes, and reading about your topic.
Explained the working relationship between the Working Outline, the Cornell Notes, and the Work Cited. Kids work on all three the remainder of the week.
Wednesday-Friday: Continue learning and taking CNs, working on the WO, and the WC.
Monday, 11/17: Complete research including Submit 50 Cornell Notes (number them in increments of 10), a Work Cited which includes a minimum of 5 credible sources, and a working outline.
Tuesday: Decision Day: kids decide if they're going to do a presentation or a paper. Brief handout: Paper or Presentation.docx.
Wednesday: Students draft or plan presentation.
Thursday: begin presentations.
Friday: continue presentations.
Monday,: Continue presentations.
Tuesday: Complete presentations.
Nothing below this line is official.
Thursday: Continue presentations in 2nd and 3rd; 5th hour reads this article: https://vault.si.com/vault/2007/02/26/everything-is-illuminated.
Gave Drafting Tips (button above) and begin drafting.
Click here for the Peer Evaluation Instrument