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A mini lesson will
be done on search engines (explain how they work and give examples), using
the library search (by author, text, and subject, then how to find the call
number in the library), and validity (use http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/eval.html)
and citing sources using MLA format.
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Pull up this website
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/print/research/r_mla.html go over
citing a book, internet, and others
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Student groups will
break into two subgroups that will use different search engines to look for
information. Also, one person from each group will be randomly chosen to find
books about the author and/or African-American culture, language arts, and
history. I will show examples of
research I have done on these authors, strategies for comprehension, and how
to document that research properly. I
will help student groups navigate and search the Internet as I monitor their
progress. Twenty minutes before the end of the hour we will get off the
computers to get back together into groups to share and highlight what each member of the group will have to do
for homework and write that in their journals. For Homework, you will begin
writing a short Biography on your author a couple paragraphs and analyze the
poem you were given in your journals. I will be reading these tomarrow.
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