Transcript Persuasive Essay

TH
6
GRADE STATES
RESEARCH ESSAY
Mrs. Freitas
Read research essay
examples
What makes a good research
essay?
• Facts/Research
• Works Cited or Bibliography
•Declarative
• Organized
• No “you” “me” “we” “I”
•Each paragraph flows from one to
the next
State Draft
Write down your top 5 choices…
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New
Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Brainstorm & Research
• You should already know something about your state. Write that
down
• Do a Google search
• “Minnesota” is going to give you a ton of
information about the state
• “Climate in Minnesota” is better than “facts about
Minnesota”
• Don’t just quit after one search – keep trying different ways of
phrasing your search
• “I can’t find anything” is both whiny and represents a lack of
effort
• If, after much trying, you really can’t find anything, you need to
rethink your topic or come up with a new one (you have to make
it up)
Write it down
• Put each of your research pages/outlines
IN YOUR BINDER (clipped in or in a page
protector!)
• Write all your research including your
sources on it
• Having random pieces of paper is a bad
idea.
• I highly suggest you trying the 11x17 paper
method I will show you in class. Store that
in your LA folder. Students often love this
and rarely lose their big paper.
ORganize
• Your research should reveal three strong
points that prove your thesis.
• You will need three facts to prove each point,
so make sure they are broad enough.
• This and writing the thesis are the most
mentally taxing parts of this assignment so be
prepared to think, be quiet, and work. It
should feel like effort, and you will need a
quiet space to be successful.
Thesis
• Thesis
• Clear, declarative
sentence
• that states topic
• and lists three points in order.
These 3 points will be your
body paragraphs.
• Parallel verbs
• Specific
BORING…
Thesis
• Thesis
• Clear, declarative
sentence that states the
name of the state you are
researching
• and lists three points in
order. These 3 points will be
your body paragraphs.
•Parallel verbs
•Specific
What topics are
listed in the
thesis?
• Topic #1• Topic #2-
• Topic #3• Each of these topics will
become each of your
body paragraphs!
YOU WILL RESEARCH 3 TOPICS
ABOUT YOUR STATE!
1. Topic #1: Places to Visit (ex: largest
• Economy
 Major industries
 Major agriculture (what
2. Options for topics #2 and #3:
crops do they grow?)
 Occupations (what kind
• Geography
of jobs do most people
 Location (Continent, hemisphere, latitude,
have?)
longitude, etc.)
• People
 Physical features (Tropical, mountains,
 Population (Ethnic
desert, etc.)
groups (races and
 Climate
ethnicities), Major
 Animal life
religions, Life
• History
expectancy)
 First inhabitants-who lived in your
 Foods
country/discovered it first?
 Holidays and Customs
 Famous leaders
(Celebrations and
 Major wars, revolutions, or events
traditions)
ball of twine, MOA, Duluth (North
Shore), etc.)
More research
• You have a framework, but need to fill in the gaps
• Find sources
• Take notes on large sheets of paper into a
combined outline
• For each body paragraph, take notes and find
sources, write a combined outline
• Proper citations – MLA format; Google “purdue
owl mla” or use easybib.com
CITATIONS
YOU NEED AT
LEAST 4 CITATIONS
IN YOUR ESSAY
1-BOOK
3-Internet, magazine, newspaper,
article, etc.
MLA Citations
• Citing an Entire Web Site
• Last name, First name. “Article Title.” Name of Site. Web (just write the word
“web”). Day Month Year article was accessed.
• No author or editor: The Purdue OWL. Purdue University. Website. 23 Apr.
2008.
• Serendip. Bryn Mawr University. 25 January 2012.
• With author or editor: Felluga, Dino. Guide to Literary and Critical Theory.
Purdue University. Website. 10 May 2006.
• Quotations In Your Paper
• Use the author’s last name or the name of the website plus the page
number in parenthesis at the end of the sentence. Ending punctuation
follows the parentheses.
• According to Foukes's study, dreams may express "profound aspects of
personality" (Foulkes, 184).
• Last name, first name of interview subject. Personal interview. Date.
• Hansen, Debbie. Personal interview. 2 Feb. 2013.
• Pettit, Jake. Personal interview. 4 Jan. 2013.
How to cite an e-book
• Format:
• Author's Last Name, First Name Middle Initial. Title of Book: Subtitle
of Book. edition. Place of Publication [if not available, use n.p.]:
Publisher [if not available, use n.p.], Year [if not available, use
n.d.]. Name of Database. [in italics] Publication medium. Date of
access.
•
• Example:
• Wharton, Edith. The Age of Innocence. New York, NY: D. Appleton
and Company, 1920. World Book Online Reference Center. Web.
16 January 2012
Don’t plagiarize: if it’s
someone else’s idea or
string of words used in
a unique way and you
don’t cite that
correctly, it’s stealing.
Don’t steal. It’s
breaking the 7th
Commandment and
God is watching.
However, if every idea in your paragraph was new to you, but it’s
common knowledge or facts that are publicly known (like, the Hulk is
green and muscly), you don’t need to quote it. If, however, you are
using an interesting facts or series of words (like, “The Incredible Hulk has
sold $5 million in merchandise,” or “the Hulk’s bulk intimidates and
irritates his opponents”) you have to put quotation marks around that
and tell where you got the info.
Bibliography
• When you are done, you will use www.
Easybib.com, citationmachine.net,
bibme.org
• You will need the author, the website,
when you accessed it, what the name of
the article was.
• WRITE THESE THINGS DOWN NOW
• YOU MAY VERY WELL NOT BE ABLE TO GET
BACK TO THE PAGE YOU’RE USING EVER
AGAIN
Mrs. Freitas’s assistance
Source:
Author’s last
name, first name.
Title of Book.
Place of
publication:
publisher, year.
Print.
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Source:
Source:
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TOPIC1:
Places to Visit
in MN
I. (t/s)
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Clincher
Combined Outline
*Citations for
EVERY Source:
Website name
Date you found
it
Name of article
Name of
author
• I WON’T:
•Tell you if it’s good
•Help with every sentence
•Think up your DUs/SOs or individual
words
•Tell you how to punctuate (use
online resources)
•Help you anymore if you’ve already
asked 2-3 times in one class period –
you’re relying on me too much!
I WILL:
• Help you find more sources if you get stuck
• Help you restructure your sentences for
clarity
• Help you find online resources for grammar
and punctuation
• Help you organize your ideas if you have
them all written down
• Help you stay on task
• Proofread your work
Don’t pester others
• Don’t ask for help while someone else is
working – they are thinking and you are
interrupting them. Nearly always you can
figure it out on your own if you think about it for
a minute.
• Don’t interrupt someone to show them a funny
picture, website, article, or anything else you
think is amusing while they are writing.
• Do ask for another student to edit a section.
We read what we meant, not what we said.
Helpful handouts: Keep these for HS
• In cart, you will find handouts with the following
information:
• Rubric – lists all requirements including checklist
for DU’s/SO’s (no label = no credit)
• Transition words organized by logic
• MLA format/Citation guide
• Hook options
Writing: Begin with the body
Body One
Follow outline
• Use direct quotations and citations
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• Frank Belling writes, “Television doesn’t promote ignorance. Instead, it
educates people about the world that one lives in.”
• “Television doesn’t promote ignorance. Instead, it educates people
about the world that one lives in” (Belling).
• In his article “Top Ten Attractions of MN,” Frank Snyder explains that
Minnesota is home to at least five national parks.
• Minnesota is home to at least five national parks (Snyder).
• Not only are there 10,000 lakes in Minnesota, but there are also 565
rivers (Name of Site)
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DUs, SOs, labeled
Transition words
Conclusion explains why this paragraph is important
to your research about your state
• Turn in R/D, get comments back, edit, turn in final
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Your Name
Body One RD
• Use direct quotations and citations
• Frank Belling writes, “Television doesn’t promote
ignorance. Instead, it educates people about the
world that one lives in.”
• “Television doesn’t promote ignorance. Instead, it
educates people about the world that one lives in”
(Belling).
• In his article “Top Ten Attractions of MN,” Frank
Snyder explains that Minnesota is home to at least
five national parks.
• Minnesota is home to at least five national parks
(Snyder).
• Not only are there 10,000 lakes in Minnesota, but
there are also 565 rivers (Name of Site)
• Compound: FANBOY
• I love ice cream, but I eat spinach more
frequently.
• Complex: A WHITE BUS
• The girls giggled while the boys played
badminton.
• Because of the weather, I’m always cold.
• VSS – 2-4 words
• Shocked, he stopped.
• She was happy.
• Jake quivered in fear.
Transitions
•Be sure you have transitions in each
paragraph. They are essential for logic.
You should have between 2-4.
•You also need to transition between
paragraphs
•Free transition between intro and
Body One – intro ends with thesis and
body one starts with a topic sentence
that is the first point from the thesis
•Every other paragraph needs to
repeat an important word, phrase or
Body paragraph 2
Follow combined outline
• Begins with word, phrase or idea from conclusion of
Proof One
• Start with t/s
• Use direct quotations and citations
• DUs, SOs, labeled
• Transition words
• Conclusion explains why this paragraph is important to
your argument
• Turn in R/D, get comments back, edit, turn in final
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• Compound: FANBOY
• I love ice cream, but I eat spinach more
frequently.
• Complex: A WHITE BUS
• The girls giggled while the boys played
badminton.
• Because of the weather, I’m always cold.
• VSS – 2-4 words
• Shocked, he stopped.
• She was happy.
• Jake quivered in fear.
INtroduction
• Hook – read “Mars” examples
• Explain topic
•Define terms
• Ends with Thesis
•Hooks
1.
2.
QUESTION
QUOTE
There’s a common expression, “No pain, no gain,” which
means that achievement requires some sort of sacrificemental sacrifice, physical sacrifice-something. Little did I know
how important that phrase would soon become in my life,k all
because of an invitation to witness, up close and personal,
some of the most fascinating (and loveable) animals on this
planet.
3.
ONOMATOPOEIA
4.
5.
POEM
SONG
• “Montana, Montana, glory of the West! Of all the states
from coast to coast, you’re easily the best! Montana,
Montana, where skies are always blue! M-O-N-T-A-N-A,
Montana, I love you!”
Hooks continued…
6. INFORMATION or a STARTLING STATISTIC
• Over $1 million of branded Backyardigan items were sold in the United
States last year.
• “A species of large, apelike creatures in habits the forests of America’s
Pacific Northwest. We call them Sasquatch or Bigfoot.”
–”Sasquatch is out There” by Kirsten Miller
7. DIALOGUE
8. STORY or “Setting the Scene”
• Make your reader feel like he/she is there!
“Imagine sun bathing on a white sandy beach. As you wiggle your toes
in the rough sand, you hear the waves roar and the seagulls cawing
quietly in the distance. You feel the cool water touch the tips of your
toes as the waves roll in, and you finally feel relaxed.”
Hook
• Cast your mind back. Remember when you were seven or eight years old,
and, for the first time, someone handed you a book with no pictures (Mars,
17).
• If you had told me back in high school that scientists would soon invent a
tiny portable device that could call any phone on earth or visit any
website, I would have said, “You are a very crazy person. Also, what is a
website?” (Mars, 28)
• BabyNameWizard.com charts Jennifer as the most popular girl’s name in
the 1970s, the decade I was born (Mars, 32).
• There’s a common expression, “No pain, no gain,” which means that
achievement requires some sort of sacrifice (Mars 60).
Conclusion
• Begins with idea, word or phrase from
clincher of Body 3
• Reviews the three topics you covered in
your paper (reword your thesis from intro)
• Call to action: tell the readers what they
should do based on what they learned
from your scintillating paper
• Return to hook
Return to hook
•Refer back to your witty, interesting,
splendid HOOK.
•Hook: Have you ever thought vacationing in
Minnesota would be awful and boring?
•Conclusion: Now that you’ve read about
Minnesota’s variety of seasons, land features that make it
possible to enjoy the great outdoors, and unique sites to
see, you now know that vacationing in Minnesota can
be a blast!
Bibliography
• Use www. Easybib.com,
citationmachine.net, bibme.org
• You will need the author, the website,
when you accessed it, what the name of
the article was
• If you don’t have all this information, you
have to go back and find it.
Final paper
• Print a clean copy
• Label DU’s/SO’s, other requirements
• Final rubric goes on top – be sure your name is on
it
• Bibliography goes on bottom
• One staple in the top left corner
• Put it in the 8th grade box
• If it’s not in the 8th grade box at the right time, it’s
late. I didn’t lose it; you didn’t turn it in correctly.
TRAVEL
BROCHURE
Mrs. Freitas
Go to
www.mrsfreitasclass.weebly.com
• “Materials” >6th Grade LA> Research Essay
• Download “Travel Brochure”
• Using your own information for each of your topics, create a
travel brochure that would convince one of your classmates to
travel to the state you’ve researched.
What topics are
listed in the
thesis?
• Topic #1• Topic #2-
• Topic #3• Each of these topics will
become each of your
body paragraphs!
How do I make my body paragraphs
“flow” from one to the next?
• Body Paragraph #2 (Topic: Geography/Land Features of MN)
Did you know that Minnesota is referred to as the Land of 10,000 Lakes?
Not only is Minnesota’s weather wonderful for those who like to enjoy all four
seasons, but its land features also contribute to the overall enjoyment of
Minnesota’s climate. According to Worldatlas.com, during the Ice Age, “the
land now called Minnesota was totally covered by glaciers. When those
masses of ice retreated (or melted) they left behind a rocky and pockmarked
landscape of rolling hills and plains, tens of thousands of freshwater lakes (in all
sizes) numerous rivers and countless small streams.” Because of these rolling
hills, plains, and lakes, Minnesotans are able to actively participate in the
following activities: biking, swimming, fishing, boating, and skiing. Richard
Johnson, a member of the Minnesota DNR, claims that because of
Minnesota’s great landscape, “our campsites are some of the best in the
country” (“Why Minnesota Camping Is Best).
In this article, Johnson went on to say that near its Canada border,
“Minnesota is home to the Boundary Waters, an attraction that draws people
from all over the Midwest.” Because of its geological location and formations,
Minnesota offers a number of landscape to enjoy and places to visit.
• Body Paragraph #3 (Topic: Places to Visit in MN)