You might want to try an "I-Search" project with your students.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill IVEY Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 11:14 PM Subject: Re: [LIT] successes?! "A list for improving literacy with focus on middle grades." <[email protected]> on Monday, October 9, 2006 at 5:59 pm -0500 wrote: >What's the Oslis website as I'm doing research soon! Also, anyone else >have any creative ideas for reserach topics? My school's curriculum >mandates that we teach a research unit in November, but we can pick the >topic. Ideas...anybody??? ;-) Hi! OSLIS is the Oregon School Library Information System. Among other things, it has an online CitationMaker. Go to http://www.oslis.k12.or.us/MLACitations/secondary/index.php As for picking the topic, I would strongly suggest you pass that responsibility on to the kids. They could each pick a unique topic (Pine Cobble School, where I used to teach, did that for their "9th Grade Speech" which was one of their graduation requirements) or they could hold a discussion, agree on a general theme, and then take off on specific directions within that theme. You never know what you'll get - but you do know they'll be engaging with their topic :-) Take care, Bill Ivey Stoneleigh-Burnham School _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
