Planning and Writing an Informative Piece about Contagious Diseases

You have developed your research question, today we will generate and plan.
Our goals:

• organize your research notes using a web or table  http://bf5writinggalore.blogspot.com/2014/02/writing-informative-piece-formulating.html
• write a thesis statement (turn your question into a statement)  http://bf5writinggalore.blogspot.com/2014/02/writing-informative-piece-research.html
• plan an introductory paragraph  http://bf5writinggalore.blogspot.com/2014/02/writing-informative-piece-using-your.html
• order your paragraphs
• organize the body 
• begin a first draft

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How to Formulate a Research Question

Step 2  Contagious Disease Research

Here's what we accomplished in step one while exploring our topics:

• READ non-fiction text about a contagious disease
• Learn unfamiliar words
• Find main ideas of the text
• Summarize the text’s ideas
• Ask questions while reading
• Site sources

What's next?  Let's take all the questions you developed and narrow it to one great research question.

Brainstorm how you might go about answering it.  You may use some of the sources you've already found or you may find new text.  You are now an investigator.  Your job is to answer that question.

So what makes a great research question?

The best questions don't necessarily emerge at the beginning of a unit of study but actually may surface AFTER you've had some time for hands-on investigation and/or reading.

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After you have developed your research question, we will generate and plan.

Informational Reading: Contagious Diseases

We've learned a few strategies about how to read informative text.  Let's begin our informational reading on contagious diseases.

Below is a list of the contagious disease each of you have chosen:

Here is a link to the google doc that explains how you'll record your thinking while reading the non-fiction texts about the assigned disease.

Example of Contagious Disease Non-Fiction Research

Tips for Informational Reading

We've finished Fever 1793, and what a wonderful book it was!  Your next task will be to research a contagious disease.  Before we can do that, we will review how to read an informational text so that transferring what you have read into writing can be a smooth transition.

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Things to consider when reading an informational text:

• Preview nonfiction text
• Determine unfamiliar words
• Ask and answer questions about the text
• Find the main idea of a section of non-fiction text
• Find the main idea of the article
• Check understanding by teaching
• Consider author's purpose

Final Interactive Journal Assignment

We will read "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allen Poe together as a class.
Click here to access the poem: http://www.online-literature.com/poe/36/

After reading, we will use Google Draw to create a venn diagram comparing and contrasting Yellow Fever 1793 to "The Masque of the Red Death."

Click below to make a copy of the template:
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Take a screenshot of your venn diagram and insert it onto the last page of your interactive reading journal.

Chapters 28, 29, and Epilogue Interactive Journal Assignment

We've finished Fever 1793 and what a wonderful book it was! 
This story is full of amazing characters. Today your assignment for your interactive journal is to become one of the characters. Choose one character and step into their world.  

Click on the link to access an "I Am" poem template. http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/iampoem.htm

Complete the poem from the perspective of the character. The poem should show how the character has grown or persevered throughout the story.  

Take a screenshot of your poem and add it to a slide in your interactive journal.

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Chapter 25 Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

We are nearing the end of the fabulous book.  You're job today in your interactive journal is to create a Haiku.   A Haiku poem doesn't have to rhyme.  You can write about anything we have read in the book.  It could be about someone, an event, a struggle, anything.  After writing your poem, find an image to go with the poem.

Reminders about Haikus:

It is a non-rhymed free verse poem that has; five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the last line.

Example:

Living Yellow

My family gone.

The pestilence paints us all

  red, black, and yellow.