Staying+Fat+For+Sarah+Byrnes+Research+Assignmnet

Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes Explorations and Building Background You have the opportunity to delve deeper into topics that will aid your understanding and appreciation of our new novel, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes. Choose a topic of interest to you - one you’re curious about and would like to explore. Topics to Explore >
 * Follow this __LINK__

Ways to Research 1. Use a notecard 2. Use the T-Chart at the end of this doc
 * Record your source (web address) on the back side of the notecard
 * Bullet point quotes, statistics, facts about your topic on the front of the notecard
 * Copy the T-chart into your google drive and title it “Sarah Byrnes Research”
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 19.95px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 19.95px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Record the source in the left column
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 19.95px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 19.95px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bullet point facts or examples or quotes in the right column

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 19.95px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">* You will turn in your research for part of your grade *

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 19.95px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Now that I’ve Researched....What do I do? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 19.95px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Formulate a question about your topic. What do you want to learn? Where did your research lead you? Develop a question that your research will address.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 19.95px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Final Product - a three-paragraph response <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 19.95px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Include a brief introduction paragraph (introduce book title, author and researched topic) and a short conclusion paragraph (what you learned from your research and how it helps you better understand the book).
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 19.95px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Question: ||

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 19.95px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">To answer your question, produce a well-constructed paragraph about your topic of interest. Follow the powerful paragraph format:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 19.95px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Topic Sentence (introduces topic of paragraph)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 19.95px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Detail 1 (Researched Information)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 19.95px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Explanation of Detail 1

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 19.95px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Detail 2 (Researched Information)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 19.95px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Explanation of Detail 2

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 19.95px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Detail 3 (Researched Information)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 19.95px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Explanation of Detail 3

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 19.95px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Conclusion sentence (leaves reader with a final thought on your topic)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 19.95px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Please double-space your paragraph and edit your writing based on your personalized Editor’s Checklist in your LA Notebook.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 19.95px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bonus - Use at least two appositives in your writing. Underline them.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 19.95px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sarah Byrnes Research


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 19.95px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Source__ || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 19.95px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Research__  ||