Text-dependent Research
Make a proposal for purchasing what you think would be the best-sized HDTV for your classroom.
Skills needed
Work on this task to develop your ability to:
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain. (Creative Commons, Reading 12.1)
Start with one article
Choose one article from the first segment, "Research" in the Gooru Collection, Buy an HDTV.
Find the Collaborators' column by clicking on the << arrows in the upper right-hand corner of each of the articles. Please add your name to mark your annotations, then read and annotate each paragraph of an article.
Post a Discussion response on Youth Voices using the guide: Basic Response to a Non-Fiction Article or Response to a Wikipedia article.
Next, read and annotate a few more articles
Annotate two or three more articles from the "Research" segment in the Gooru Collection, Buy an HDTV, and use Dialectical Notes. Later, you will be linking your notes and articles at the bottom of your proposal.
Vocabulary
Use Quizlet to build your vocabulary using words from these articles.
Go deeper with media
Go deeper into your research by doing one of the following:
- Make a Creative Commons photo essay;
- Create an EDU-YouTube playlist;
- Collect iTunes and NPR podcasts.
Keep notes by describing (images) and transcribing (things people say on video and audio). Add these descriptions or transcriptions and your responses to the same Dialectical Notes form you started above. Share your Presentation or playlist with your teacher and peers.
Post a draft of you proposal as a Discussion on Youth Voices
Post a Discussion on Youth Voices about your research that also includes a photo essay, a video playlist or a list of podcasts about your research question. (This is your second post for this task and badge.)
Begin by drafting this post as a Doc. Follow the steps under one of these two missions:
These missions help you to refocus your attention on two questions:
- What are the most important things I’ve come to understand?
- How can I use my information to make those things clear to others?
Then revise. This discussion post should be written as a proposal to the purchasing committee of your school, and you should make an argument about the best-sized HDTV for your classroom and a design for the viewing area that specifies how far students will be from the screen.
Get this badge
Submit links to your annotated articles, your dialectical notes and both of your discussion posts on Youth Voices. Get some feedback, and earn this badge for this task:
