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  PROCESS  

Your research will be guided by The Big6 Skills Information Problem Solving Approach.

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

Fort at West Point             Old '76 House

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.