A4 Research Project

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by Diana Ayoub1 view·Updated Mar 14, 2021
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  1. in this video, I'll be going over everything you need
  2. to know about the A four research project.
  3. It is an integration between English and social studies.
  4. It's called a year from History, and I'm going to
  5. be going over what?
  6. The task is the goal of the expectations and the
  7. format that you're going to be using in your research,
  8. which is called Mila Format.
  9. So for your A four projects, you will choose any
  10. year from history research the events that occurred during that
  11. year. You will create a three paragraph research report containing
  12. your findings, and then you will deliver your information as
  13. if you are a news reporter from that year.
  14. So you have two major outcomes.
  15. A three paragraph research report and a video of you
  16. pretending that you are a news broadcaster.
  17. From the year that you chose delivering the news For
  18. this project, you will be using your writing skills, your
  19. research skills and communication skills.
  20. It is due April 18th, so the first step is
  21. decide which year from history you'd like to report about.
  22. If I were you, I'd do a little bit of
  23. research. Ask some people what was a year that had
  24. a lot of major events going on for you to
  25. research and learn about.
  26. Once you decide what you're going to be researching, create
  27. questions that you need to answer through your research I
  28. have on this.
  29. You see, Page um, a content block called guided research,
  30. which gives you some of the things you need to
  31. be looking for.
  32. We'll check that out in a second three.
  33. Begin your three paragraph research report using your findings and
  34. cite the sources you've used using M.
  35. L A.
  36. Format. We are going to be talking about this in
  37. class, and I will briefly go over it in the
  38. video. Fourth, you will prepare your video plan.
  39. How you will tell the quote news, dress up like
  40. a news anchor would.
  41. And then you're going to present the news through a
  42. recorded video.
  43. Okay, so that's our project.
  44. Here's what I meant when I said guided research In
  45. your chosen year, you're going to research the following major
  46. events International politics, economy.
  47. What happened in economics that year?
  48. Achievements, inventions.
  49. Maybe that came out during that year.
  50. Natural disasters that occurred in that year main events and
  51. entertainment art and main events in sports.
  52. So these are things that you'll typically hear on the
  53. news, and that's what you're going to be researching for
  54. your chosen year.
  55. Here. As usual, I've provided you with some reliable sources
  56. that you can use for your research info.
  57. Please has a really great one where you can click
  58. on each year and find out major events that happened
  59. there. Britannica, PBS.
  60. Kids Not Geo time for kids and people history.
  61. Very reliable as usual.
  62. We avoid websites like Wikipedia, even though it comes up,
  63. Um, as number one on your Google search that is
  64. not reliable and not allowed.
  65. Okay, let's find out about academic integrity.
  66. We do talk about this, but we are going to
  67. be taking it much more seriously than ever before.
  68. Academic integrity just means that you are being honest with
  69. your own work.
  70. Plagiarism is never allowed.
  71. Plagiarism is copying words written by others.
  72. Um, it doesn't show off any of your writing skills.
  73. I could find out myself if I wanted to copy
  74. from the Internet.
  75. So that's something that we are not accepting at all
  76. in research.
  77. What you do when you find an article with good
  78. information is you.
  79. Paraphrase it.
  80. Meaning you put it in your own words.
  81. I'd also like to remind you that I use turn
  82. it in dot com, which is a website where I
  83. can put your writing in and it will tell me
  84. if anything was plagiarized.
  85. So be careful.
  86. This is not a joke.
  87. We have to be honest.
  88. We have to show off our knowledge.
  89. You guys have gone to a place where you are
  90. incredible writers.
  91. You are 21st century kids that are really good at
  92. researching. So do this right.
  93. Okay. M l A formats as usual and research.
  94. We have a works cited page at the end, which
  95. means you put down the different websites that you use.
  96. What we're going to do differently is you're not just
  97. going to copy that web source at the top.
  98. You have to use this website that I've provided here.
  99. It's also on the you see page.
  100. You type in your website and it will show you
  101. what you should put on the works cited.
  102. Page, You have to use times new Roman font size
  103. 12. Your writing must be double spaced.
  104. You do have to invent each paragraph.
  105. And this is what your first page should look like.
  106. You have your name at the top left corner first,
  107. and then my name.
  108. You write English and social studies and then the date.
  109. Then in the center, you have the title of your
  110. report and you begin writing by inventing each paragraph.
  111. Okay, here is our rubric.
  112. Let's take a closer look.
  113. It is graded out of 20 um, to get a
  114. score of four in all of our main our five
  115. criteria for audience and purpose, you have to focus on
  116. a clearly stated thesis.
  117. Give complete citations for organization.
  118. You present your information in a logical order emphasizing details
  119. which are very important for elaboration.
  120. You draw clear conclusions from the information that you've gathered
  121. using multiple sources.
  122. If you only have one website on your works cited,
  123. that's not extensive.
  124. Research. The use of language.
  125. You show clarity.
  126. You contain few mechanical errors.
  127. You are using proper conventions, no run on sentences, correct
  128. punctuation and capitalization.
  129. And lastly, your presentation skills.
  130. You speak clearly at a balanced pace.
  131. Not too fast, not too slow.
  132. You share eye contact with the audience or In our
  133. case, the camera drama skills are used, and students seem
  134. to be a real news reporter, and your video contains
  135. images as well.
  136. So this is like I said, everything you need to
  137. know about the A four project you are going to
  138. show off your research skills.
  139. You're writing skills and your communication skills when you're acting
  140. like a news reporter.
  141. I'm very excited to see the work that you're going
  142. to be doing, and we will have a lesson during
  143. English class where we can share ideas, talk about the
  144. research process and discuss how we can create that news
  145. broadcast video.