Period 1: Historical Investigation, Day 4 - Class Recap

A few students are working studying the revolution in Vietnam - the August Revolution. This is a picture on top of what was formerly known as Independence Palace and is now Reunification Palace in 
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Dear class,

Plenty to go over today, because there is a whole lot due next class. No playing around: let's get to it. Read on and be sure to ask questions if you are confused!

Essential Questions: What brings people together? What tears people apart?

Soundtrack: "Survival" by Muse. Chosen for today because it was a song that played before each event at the Olympics. Check out the video! Hopefully, you will survive this assignment and "win" a good grade!

AGENDA 4/3/13:

News Brief

Part B Q/A

Computer Lab - N210

Homework: ***DUE AT THE START OF NEXT CLASS** 

Part A: Research Question paragraph. This should already be done, before Spring Break. Even if you have handed your Part A to me in the past (or emailed it to me), I still want you to include a copy on Friday. If you don't have Part A done, this is how you will do it: Part A Paragraph Steps.

Part B: Your investigation of evidence. Remember, you need to have 4 sources. One of those has to be an in-person print source. Here is the template to help get you the information you need. Here is the overview of  what to do in Part B. Again, you are just summarizing information from your sources (as to how they relate to your research question) and combining it into a 2-3 page paper. NOT your own analysis. That is Part C, which you are doing next week.

Part E: The bibliography of your four sources. This is the full citation for each source. Here is the MLA guide for this (the second page contains the information you need for Part E, the first page has the "in text" citations for Part B).

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News Brief: Ethan M. and Collin had the news brief today. Here are the two articles that were brought in are BBC.co.uk - North Korea expands nuclear weapons programme and FoxNews.com - Destination Moon: Russia to launch lunar robots.

Obviously, North Korea continues to be an area of big focus in current world events. As for Russia, I said that some people believe that the United States never went to the moon. I told the story of Buzz Aldrin, who was a lunar commander on the first mission to step foot on the moon, punching one of the conspiracy theorists in the face. Here's that video.

Part B Q/A: I tried as best I could to explain (yet again - this was the third class in a row that I've talked about what to do) how to complete the 2-3 pages of Part B. This is just a summary of what you found in your research. Make sure to cite your sources!

Computer Lab - N210: We went to the computer lab to work on Part B. Hopefully, everyone knows what you need to be doing!

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Please let me know if I can help you with anything! I know this is quite a lot of work. I am confident that you can do this.