World Religions Packet (google drive)

Resources

Databases

• Britannica School
• Facts on File:  World Religions Online (new trial – expires on March 29th)
• Ebsco Academic Search Complete
• Questia School
• NewsBank

Books – On Destiny

• Reference Books
• Non-Fiction

Collection and Organization

• NoodleTools

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Day One – Review Broad Topics (Which religion or religions are you most interested in?)

• Introduction to the Research Paper
• Review the Guided Inquiry Model
• NoodleTools – Create a Project and share with your teacher
• Databases – Britannica and Facts on File

Day Two – Finalize your Topic

• Database – Ebsco Academic Search Complete
• Database – NewsBank
• NoodleTools – How to create a works cited card using the copy and paste shortcut.

Day Three – Draft Research Question and Thesis Statement

• Database – Questia School
• NoodleTools – How to create a works cited card from scratch and in-text citation
• Quote/Paraphrase/Summarize – Clarification of the difference
• Physical Notecards – students will be shown the original paper notecard method (Homework = pick an article from one source and create a source card and three note cards from this source)
• Plagiarism – Reminder

Day Four – Finalize Question and Thesis Statement – Expand NoodleTools Notecards

• Annotate the source card used for homework using OPVL (origin, purpose, value, limitations)
  • OPVL
    (source: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/yMd0iFQzqS0/UoeFBdKzNcI/AAAAAAAAAOs/b_aCHyJ_sk8/s1600/OPVL.jpg)
• NoodleTools
  • Convert the physical source card used for homework to NoodleTools
  • Include the annotation in the works cited card in the space provided

Day Five – Outline

• NoodleTools – Create an outline in NoodleTools
  • In-Text Citations – Online Writing Lab Owl Purdue
  • In-Text Citations – NoodleTools

• Continue Researching