Historical Research Paper

In an effort to make assignments more authentic to students, they will be helping create a Colonial America Text book for their Informational Research Papers this year.  They will be working in collaborative groups to take on a "chapter" of this book.  We have brainstormed what topics should be covered, broken into groups, began researching our topics, and studied other text books as mentors.  In the coming weeks we will be drafting and redrafting our essays with different lenses to improve upon our writing.  We will also be using technology to give our book a real textbook feel and creating a pdf document of the entire book.

We will covering the following topics:
- Effective notetaking
- Domain specific vocabulary
- Including geography
- Looking for patterns
- Including insights
- Timelines
- Different non-fiction text structures