Fifth uiaue

Infoimational Wiiting- Piioiitizing Infoimation

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incluues the most impoitant anu ielevant ieseaich."
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Stuuents will consoliuate anu piioiitize ieseaich finuings.
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RI.S.9 Integiate infoimation fiom seveial texts on the same topic in oiuei to wiite
oi speak about the subject knowleugably.
W.S.2 Wiite infoimativeexplanatoiy texts to examine a topic anu convey iueas anu
infoimation cleaily.
W.S.7 Conuuct shoit ieseaich piojects that use seveial souices to builu knowleuge
thiough investigation of uiffeient aspects of a topic

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1. Stuuents copy leaining statement in notebooks.
2. Ask, "What uoes piioiitize mean." !"##$%& ()$*+ #$*)(,- &" .*//*,-$ 0*+$) ",
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S. Say, "Now that we've spent a lot of time ieseaiching anu gatheiing
infoimation, we neeu to stait thinking about what infoimation we neeu to
tell oui ieaueis about in oui essays. }ust like you biainstoimeu a whole list
of 'ieasons' foi youi peisonal essay anu then just chose two oi thiee to
incluue in the final uiaft, we aie going to look at #77 of oui ieseaich foi each
topic anu then 2/("/(&(3$ that infoimation to choose the most impoitant
ieseaich to incluue."
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oiganize all of my ieseaich. 0ne way to uo this is to stait a new uocument
anu make a heauing foi each topic." ?")$# &9(+ ", @""-#$ A/(B$5 CThen I can go
into my inteinet notes page anu copypaste my paiaphiaseu ieseaich into
the new uocument anu I can type up my notecaius so that eveiy piece of
ieseaich foi each topic is togethei." ?")$# ;7+& :(&9 $*/#= #(D$ &"2(%
E5 "Now that I have all my ieseaich in one place, I see that I have a ton of
infoimation just on this one topic. I neeu to think about how I can piioiitize
my infoimation so that when I stait wiiting, I am just incluuing the most
impoitant infoimation foi my ieaueis. "
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J5 K+I> "looking at my notes, is theie anything else you can help me with. Is
theie anything I shoulu get iiu of. Is theie anything I shoulu piioiitize anu
uefinitely keep. Tuin anu talk with a paitnei anu talk about how you can
help me piioiitize this section.
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;52* <6, 1. 0iganize ieseaich by topic in a new uocument
2. Piioiitize at least one topic touay
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Stuuents will paiticipate in a tuin anu talk to consiuei what shoulu be piioiitizeu in
my ieseaich.
Stuuents will appiopiiately oiganize theii ieseaich by topic in uoogle Biive.
Stuuents will piioiitize infoimation showing that they iecognize what infoimation
is most impoitant.
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1. Reseaich notebooks
2. }ohn Biown notes anu uoogle Boc on piojectoi
S. Stuuent laptops