PROCESS
Big6 #2 Information Seeking Strategies
Determine the best resources to find
the information you need.
Big6 #3 Location & Access of Information
Locate the resources and access the information within them.
Big6 #4 Use of Information
How will I record the information that I find? Research Notes.
1.
Using
yahoo (www.yahoo.com), search these
topics to answer the
questions about "A Story of
Treason" on your Research Notes.
Use quotes
and/or the Boolean “and” or + when entering your search statement in
Yahoo.
Major
John Andre
Benedict Arnold
Joshua
Hett Smith
George Washington
DeWint House
Old Dutch Church Tappan
More
2.
Search yahoo for primary sources (letters, journals, diaries,
newspaper
articles,
speeches, photographs, etc.) about this event and copy/paste them on
your research notes.
Use
quotes from these sources in your article.
3.
Open a Word document, type your name and A Story of Treason as
your heading. Save your
Word
document under your user name on the H-Drive. Give the document the file
name Treason Story. When you locate a photograph of the people and
places involved, right click, copy and paste it into your document. Make
sure to label each picture and give credit to the site from which you
copied the picture.
Use
the Classroom
Connect web site for citing Internet resources and
use
the Quick
Guide for citing other resources.
Big6
# 5 Synthesis
How will I present the results of my research
from a variety of resources.
4.
Using your Research Notes and your photographs,
design a front page headline for the Pennsylvania
Gazette during the
Revolutionary Period about the Treason Story.
Write a newspaper article describing the events of this spy plot. Give your article a
catchy title. Be sure to include What happened? Who was involved? Where? When? Why? How? Try to
quote one of your primary sources. Several articles will be selected and
included on Link’s web page.
Sample
Newspapers from the Past.
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