Lesson Title: Paraphrasing for research papers
Topic/Focus Area: writing

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Subject(s): Language Arts/Reading

Grade Level(s): 8

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Lesson Overview



Standards

Subject : English-Language Arts
Grade : Eighth
Strand : Writing
Substrand 1.0 : Writing Strategies

Students write clear, coherent, and focused essays. The writing exhibits students’ awareness of audience and purpose. Essays contain formal introductions, supporting evidence, and conclusions. Students progress through the stages of the writing process as needed.


Concept : Organization and Focus

 
 
STAR California Standards Test
Standard:
1.3
Support theses or conclusions with analogies, paraphrases, quotations, opinions from authorities, comparisons, and similar devices.

Concept : Research and Technology

 
 
Standard:
1.4
Plan and conduct multiple-step information searches by using computer networks and modems.

Concept : Evaluation and Revision

 
 
STAR California Standards Test
Standard:
1.6
Revise writing for word choice; appropriate organization; consistent point of view; and transitions between paragraphs, passages, and ideas.

Strand : Written & Oral Conventions
Substrand 1.0 : Written and Oral English Language Conventions

Students write and speak with a command of standard English conventions appropriate to this grade level.


Concept : Sentence Structure

 
 
STAR California Standards Test
Standard:
1.1
Use correct and varied sentence types and sentence openings to present a lively and effective personal style.

 
 
STAR California Standards Test
Standard:
1.2
Identify and use parallelism, including similar grammatical forms, in all written discourse to present items in a series and items juxtaposed for emphasis.

 
 
STAR California Standards Test
Standard:
1.3
Use subordination, coordination, apposition, and other devices to indicate clearly the relationship between ideas.

Concept : Grammar

 
 
STAR California Standards Test
Standard:
1.4
Edit written manuscripts to ensure that correct grammar is used.

Concept : Punctuation and Capitalization

 
 
STAR California Standards Test
Standard:
1.5
Use correct punctuation and capitalization.

Concept : Spelling

 
 
STAR California Standards Test
Standard:
1.6
Use correct spelling conventions.

Student Learning Objectives


Activities

  1. Day 1: Teacher will begin lesson by showing students via an LCD projector, some key sites about Anne Frank to give students some visual background info. on her and the circumstances surrounding her life. Teacher will stop on one site with a lot of text that could be used in a research paper about her life. Teacher will then discuss the importance of paraphrasing published material when doing reports and the issue of plagerism. (This is also a good time to start talking about the works cited page and showing students where to locate the pertinent info. on the website.) Teacher will model acceptable and appropriate paraphrasing while students watch. Teacher will demonstrate two paragraphs before soliciting participation with students. Teacher will then select a paragraph for students to paraphrase on their own.
  2. Day 2: Class begins with students in groups sharing papers. Groups will select "the best" example to read for the group. They will type it up on Word and save to a disk to be displayed for the class for a group evaluation. Then teacher will open up another website about Anne Frank and paraphrase with class one more time. At this point teacher will introduce the concept of parenthetical citations within their reports(just to make them aware of the idea).
  3. Activity 3: This culminating activity will actually take place about 3 days later to allow time for students to receive more direction about the requirements of the research paper and to do some initial research of their chosen topics. Students will submit disks with a paragraph of information pasted to a Word document above their paraphrasing attempt. Teacher will randomly select samples to display before the class for evaluation and possible editing.

Resources

Content Resources (books, articles, etc.)

This lesson precedes a class reading of The Diary of Anne Frank the play written by Francis ????


Web Resources

Hardware/Software Resources (computers, CD-ROMs, TV, VCR, etc.)
Teacher will utilize LCD projector to display images for class. Students will use computers to process save sources and process paraphrasing samples.

Teacher will utilize websites and their hotlinks to discuss and display background information on Anne Frank and WWII. Then we will use the text in the sites to practice paraphrasing. www.annefrank.com , www.virtualjewishlibrary , and their hotlinks like Shoah Portal. Students will also visit these sites and others to do research on the web for research papers. In addition Microsoft Word will be used for the word processing.


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Assessment
Initially students will be asked to paraphrase a short document and assessed using the paraphrasing rubric. The results will be used to assess growth at the end of the culmintating activity. Students will also be informally assessed during the class discussion and whole class paraphrasing activity.
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