Aim: How do we continue our research and begin writing our informative feature about Michael Jordan?

Aim: How do we continue our research and begin writing our informative feature about Michael Jordan?

Do Now: Please log onto the class blog.

Please open up your documents and get ready to plot your informative feature.
Firstly, please share some of the things that you found out about Jordan that might help your classmates.
(5 min.)

Elicit Do Now responses
Q: Who found some really good sites that would help your classmates?
A: I found something…
(3 min.)

Materials: A. Macs
B. class blog
C. Story plotter
Procedures:

Let’s write our lead together, as a class, and then I will allow you to work with your teammate, on this article for the remainder of the period.

Q: So what will your research be about for this Jordan article?
A: It would be best to have the reader know about why Jordan was the player he was- his career, stats, etc.

Good, that’s exactly right. Don’t forget to include quotes, if you can find any, which others have said about Jordan. Other players, coaches, etc.
(5 minutes to work on lead as a class.)

Something like: Last week, Lebron James made news by announcing that NBA players should give up their 23’s in solidarity for the effort to get Michael Jordan’s number retired. James has worn the number, 23, since his high school days. Why would players feel so strongly about this? Who was this man, Jordan, who for well over a decade rocked first the basketball world, and then the planet as a whole? We decided to find out.

I’m going to distribute a graphic organizer so you can plot your article.
I want you to first plan it on paper.

Write down all the websites you visit, keep a careful record.

Remember you copy and pasted the internet addresses onto a word doc, as this was more efficient then transcribing them by hand

Spend ten more minutes researching, and then Begin the writing of the article together
After you have plotted and planned, you can then work together behind one computer and start writing a first draft.

I want all the writing to be a collaboration between you and your team mate. A good strategy would be for one person to research while the better writer turns that information into the body of the article.

I will circulate to help you… (7 min., creating the lead and administration)

(Ten minutes Research)

Okay, now begin writing the article, you will have the rest of the period to do the writing and part of tomorrow.

Summation, with three minutes left:

Okay, save your work on the hard drive, log out and place the keyboard on top of the hard drive.