TKM Multi-Genre Research Project
English I and English I Pre-AP
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Rubric and Assignment Details
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Also available in the Google Classroom. You will turn this assignment in through Google Classroom when you are finished.
Sample Thinglinks
For this assignment you will:
- Choose a main focal image on a chosen topic.
- Research and write a summary of main events on the topic (6-9 sentences).
- Research and write a cause/effect AEC document on the topic (6-9 sentences).
- Locate or create an advertisement or poem in relation to the topic.
- Locate or create a song or video related to the topic.
- Create an annotated bibliography of all sources.
- Link all items to the main focal image using ThingLink.
Start With an Image
- Perform a Google image search on your topic.
- Click "Search Tools" at the top.
- Click "Usage Rights" at the top and choose "Labeled for non-commercial reuse with modification."
- Select an image that has many conversation points.
- Right click and save the image on your H drive.
- Click "Visit Page" and use that info to create your citation on Easy Bib (You will include the URL too).
- On Easy Bib, click "All 59 Options" and "Digital Image". Fill in the blanks and create the citation. Copy the citation to a Google doc Bibliography page you create.
Do your Research and Create Your Items
- Create your summary and cause/effect documents as separate Google Docs.
- Keep your Bibliography as a separate Google Doc as well.
- Create a Google Doc to keep the links you find to videos, poems, or audio clips so that they will be in the same place.
- Be sure to adjust the share settings on each document to allow anyone with the link to view (no need to share with anyone).
- When you are linking these docs to the main image later, you can use the share link.
Research Tools
Print Materials
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Websites
Use the Website Evaluation Checklist to evaluate these and other online sources.
Databases
- Worldbook Online-great for general overviews
- Gale Cengage-Use the Student Resources in Context product.
- Explora
- EBSCO Host-Use the Student Research Center product.
- ABC-CLIO-great for historical info
To access databases at home, log in to Mackin Via with your ID number and birthdate.
Citation Generators
When Your Research is Complete:
Thinglink
- Watch the instructional video on setting up and using ThingLink.
- Open a free Thinglink account here.
- Click "Create+" at the top.
- Copy and paste the URL of your image into Thinglink or Upload.
- Title your project with topic/names/teacher/class period. (ex: Jim Crow Laws/John Smith and Nancy Jones/Grandell/2A)
- Link your research items to the photo at the appropriate spots by clicking on the image (put some thought into this.)
- Click "Edit Image" and then "Sharing Settings" at the bottom.
- Set the image visibility as "unlisted" and then click "close" and "Save".
- Click "Share" and copy the link. This is what you will turn in to your teacher in the Google classroom.