Th 6 Grade Research Project You Are Going To

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ProjectProject





Your picture book will be a journal of yourfamous person that is written in first person.

It is to be approximately 600-800 words.

“I am the Patron Saint of animals

and ecology.”



You will start first by finding sources foryour famous person. You must have a

minimum of three sources, and one of them must be a book or magazine.Sources can be found on the computer, inour library, a public library, or from yourow own house.



Each source that you use for your projectneeds to have a “source card” on a note

card.

You will fill out a separate note card for

each source.



Source Cards

What Kind of Source # of your source

Correct citation of this source (This is the same as it will be on your your bibliography page)





Outlines use Roman Numerals and Capital Letters. I. Main Idea

A. Fact

B. Fact1. detail2. detail

II. Main Idea

A. Fact

B. Fact.

**When you are making an outline, if you have an A. you haveto have a B. If you have a 1. you have to have a 2.



Now for the note cards!



On your note cards you are going to beparaphrasingthe information you find in

your sources. Paraphrasing means readingthe information and then writing it in yourown words!



If you copy someone else’s words from atext without giving them credit, it is called

Plagiarism. This is a BIG NO NO!!! You can get into serious trouble if you are accused

of plagiarizing. In college, you can get expelled if you plagiarize.



There should be one note card for everysection of your outline. Each note card is

to show the section of the outline that theinformation is about and should show thenumber of the source the you used.





Note card should be written VERY NEATLY!The information on the note cards should

be in your own words.You need to have at least 10 note cards.



Your next step is your rough draft. Youshould have a note card for each section of

your outline. The note cards should be putin order of your outline for the rough draft.



Take the information from the note cardand turn it into a journal entry that is in

first person. Remember, when you writein first person, you are using words suchas I, me, my, mine. You are writing itthrough the eyes of your famous person!



What isPARENTHETICAL

CITATION?



Parenthetical Citation is where you citeyour source at the bottom of every journal

page. This tells your readers that youdidn’t make up the information on thepage – you got it from another source.You put it in (parenthesis) at the end of

the very last sentence.



The Parenthetical Citation is theauthor’s last name with the page number…

if there is a page number. If there isn’t anauthor, you should use the name of thearticle in quotations.

(Magill 200).



Finally, your final project should have:1. Title and Author with a picture on the cover of your journal.

2. Each journal page in your project should be typed.

3. Each journal page should have a picture – you mayhave more than one picture per page.

4. Each page should have a date in the top right-handcorner-it can be just a year. This is a journal of aperson’s life so the pages are in the order of theevents occurred in his/her life.





6. There should be a short summary of the journal – this is like a review that you see

on the inside jackets of books or on theback of the book. It tells the reader whatthe book is about and some of thehighlights. The summary should be on theback cover of your book.



You will receive handouts that give you allof this information. You will have

reference sheets that will help show youexactly how to complete this project.



You will have specific due dates for eachpart of your research project. It is very

important that you keep up with each partand have it completed by the due date!



We will do a large part of this projectduring class time. However, you are going

to be expected to do some of the work onyour own.

You must have your materials withyou in class everyday!



This research project covers many 6th grade standards and is a very large part of

your language arts grade for 4th quarter!

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