1. KNOW ASSIGNMENT: Your topic today is to do general research (an overview) of either the Pacific or the European Theater of World War II.

2. ORGANIZE YOUR WORK SPACE: Have enough room to work so that you can spread out. In front of you have index cards, a pen, and high lighter (spots) . Sit comfortably. Do not sit next to someone to whom you will socialize. Place the book from which you will take notes to the left and index cards to the right. Place unnecessary books, etc. On the floor.

3. FIND RESOURCES: Since all of you will basically be doing the same topic, try different encyclopedias. Look up World War II or The Second World War in an encyclopedia. Others use Groilers or Encarta on the computers, others go to the Internet computers and search under YAHOO or most search engines. (Blair G and Steph�and others, please show those students who are not as familiar with the Internet as you are, how to search on the Internet). If possible, make copies of these reference materials. Make copies of the actual article including those on the encyclopedia and the Internet. Also make copies of the title page and copyright page of each book. Staple all pages of each article together including a title page, if present. Then place all articles in order from longest to shortest. Make sure you notice the dates of the computerized encyclopedias. You have just collected your preliminary bibliography and preliminary research.

4. MAKE BIBLIOGRAPHY CARDS: Before reading any materials, take an index card and make a bibliographical entry for each source you have (see MLA packet). They should be in alphabetical order. If you have enough markers or spots of different colors (or index cards), color code each entry. Place a paper clip around them for the moment and place to the side. Do not number them at this time

5. TAKING NOTES: Having made the bibliography cards (they will be graded), take the most general or most comprehensive article and scan it quickly noticing how it is organized. All of this information is considered general information and need not be documented in your final paper. You, however, need experience in knowing the relationship between a bibliography card and the information taken from an article and placed on a note card. Read the article highlighting SPECIFICS (names, statistics, places, cause and effect, comparisons, contrasts, weaponry, lists, chronologies). When finished, go back to the items

6. Highlighted, reread it to determine the general content of the note, and place this information on a card. Make sure you include all the necessary information needed for proper documentation [title of encyclopedia, date, page, subject heading (slug) and the actual note]. Paraphrase the information unless it is a statistic. Paraphrase means to read and then reword. If you copy three or more exact words in the same order, it is considered a quote and must have quotation marks around it. YOU MUST PLACE THE PAGE NUMBER IN THE SOURCE FROM WHICH THE INFORMATION WAS TAKEN ON THE NOTE CARD. Once you have finished one source, go to the next. Highlight new information related to statistics, lists, people, places, cause and effect, and comparison contrast. Remember that placement of troops would be important as well as the time involved in a battle. Go to the third and do the same thing, writing down any NEW information. Continue with the same organized routine.

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NOTE: JOT DOWN THE NAMES OF IMPORTANT MILITARY PERSONNEL ON A SINGLE SEPARATE NOTE CARD AS YOU READ BECAUSE THAT WILL BE THE TOPIC FOR TOMORROW.

SUPPLIES NEEDED:

1. 3X5 INDEX CARDS (NOT NOTEBOOK PAPER) COLOR CODING IS GOOD

2. DIFFERENT COLOR SPOTS OR HIGHLIGHTERS

3. BLACK INK PEN

4. PACKET FOR REFERENCE ON MLA

5. PAPER (GEM) CLIPS

6. RUBBER BANDS

7. ZIP LOCK BAG

8. ENTHUSIASM

9. BEING YOUR SWEET AND LOVABLE SELF

(Sound familiar. Always bring these supplies for research)

OBJECTIVES:

1. Develop you as an independent and intellectually curious

researcher

2. Narrow your topic to something specific.

3. Realize that there are numerous types of resources when

collecting information: books, magazines, pamphlets, newspapers, specialized encyclopedia (oK), interviews, specialized publications, indexes that index various types of sources, movies, songs, pictures, and, of course, the net etc. Most important is that you select a topic about which you are enthused and about which there are at least ten (10) available resources. You must have two (2) books, two (2) magazine articles, (1) interview, one (1) newspaper article and the remainder can come from the Internet as long as they are via a publication or college.

4. Practice library skills in different library settings. For those of you who are willing, I would like to take you to the FSU library to learn how to use a college library. We could also go to Bainbridge. This would have to be on a Saturday or Sunday, and it would not be required. They have old newspapers on film.. Remember also that Roddenbery�s has old newspapers available as well as Time, Look, and Reader�s Digest magazines. Many magazines are on the net and have archives available. Keep in mind the fiftieth reunion of D-Day was in 1994.

5. Decide what kind of approach to papers applies to your paper: process, classification, analysis, cause and effect,

comparison/contrast, extended definition, argument or persuasion. Your paper will mainly be one kind of paper but may include many different types of paragraphs or approaches within its content.

6. Decide how you will organize the content: chronologically, climactically, semi-climatically, cause and effect.

7. Formulate a preliminary thesis. Decide on the topic: The

battle Metz or women in the workforce during World War II. Decide on a controlling purpose: Why it was won (lost) by the Americans, how women�s role in society was affected. Anticipate the POD�s (points of development) which is subject to change.

8. Make a preliminary outline. This is very important. It can change, but you need this BEFORE you start taking notes . WHY? The preliminary outline becomes your guide as to what you should write down and what you do not need to write in your notes. REMEMBER you are trying to prove one idea and your points of development are the means to prove it. Therefore, all notes must be selected on the basis that they prove the CP. Without a preliminary outline you write too much.

9. Be selective about your notes. Have some general concepts, but for the most part your notes should be specifics: statistics, descriptions, opinions, lists, cause and effects, etc. You read enough to formulate your ideas and then you find notes that SUPPORT your ideas.

10. Learn when to stop taking notes. When you aren�t learning anything new, you are finished. As long as your are learning new facts, keep going.

11. Make bibliography cards for new sources. The notes from these sources will have to be documented, so get the bibliography entry right or make copies of title pages and copyright pages.

12. TAKE NOTES BASED ON THE PRELIMINARY OUTLINE AND DOCUMENT CORRECTLY.

PROCEDURE:

1. KNOW ASSIGNMENT: Your task today is to locate information about a specific topic dealing with World War II. Conduct research related to a specific battle in World War II in which the veteran you interviewed was involved.

If he was not in combat, select a non-combat topic. Research what was going on during the occupation of Germany, the clean up after the war, the workforce in the US that was comprised of women in the work force, production of weapons, sacrifices the average American made or even the economic boom after the war. I really would like to have someone examine the death of Gen. George Patton, the political career of Dwight D. Eisenhower, McCarthyism, Stalin, whether or not Hitler did commit suicide, etc.

2. ORGANIZE YOUR WORKSPACE: Have enough room to work so that you can spread out. In front of you have i index cards, a pen, and highlighter (spots) . Sit comfortably. Do not sit next to someone to whom you will socialize. Place the book from which you will take notes to the left and index cards to the right. Place unnecessary books, etc. on the floor.

3. FIND RESOURCES: Scan books and find general information about your topic in encyclopedias again or specialized encyclopedia. Locate books on a specific battle in Catalogue Plus or, in general, on WW2 in Catalogue Plus. Know the Dewey Decimal system number for history.

4. Use the chapter headings and indexes to find specific chapters or pages on battles in general books.

5. Find magazine articles on specific battles�don�t

forget 50 year anniversaries.

6. Locate pamphlets, statistics, newspaper articles, etc.

Don�t forget the vertical files.

7. Locate videos on topic. You can view videos and take notes in the library. For those of you who have cable, watch cable 49- the HISTORY CHANNEL. Many programs deal with WW2. Tape them and review to take notes. Make sure you get the correct bibliographical information.

You are young, intelligent people and it is okay to watch scholarly television. PBS often has WW2.

8. Make bibliography cards with the correct information

and in the correct order for your sources. Write as you

will write them on the WORKS CITED page.

9. Write a preliminary thesis

10. Construct a preliminary outline

11. Take notes to prove thesis and the POD�s of the outline.

BASICALLY YOU ARE DOING WHAT YOU DID YESTERDAY BUT ON A MORE SPECIFIC TOPIC.

12. Near the end of class, organize your notes by placing a rubber band around the note cards and merging your bibliography cards with previous day�s. Refer to yesterday if your need help.

NOTE: JOT DOWN THE NAMES OF IMPORTANT MILITARY PERSONNEL ON A SINGLE SEPARATE NOTE CARE AS YOU READ BECAUSE THAT WILL BE THE TOPIC FOR TOMORROW.

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SUPPLIES NEEDED:

1. 3X5 INDEX CARDS (NOT NOTEBOOK PAPER) COLOR CODING IS GOOD

2. DIFFERENT COLOR SPOTS OR HIGHLIGHTERS

3. BLACK INK PEN

4. PACKET FOR REFERENCE ON MLA

5. PAPER (GEM) CLIPS

6. RUBBER BANDS

7. ZIP LOCK BAG

8. ENTHUSIASM

9. BEING YOUR SWEET AND LOVABLE SELF

OBJECTIVES:

1. Conduct specific research for a research paper

2. Learn how to collect biographical information

3. Re-enforce objectives of collecting articles, making bibliography cards, and taking notes undertaken on previous days

4. Make bibliography cards

5. Make note cards

6. Determine where information about military officers fits into your paper.

PROCEDURE:

1. KNOW ASSIGNMENT: Your topic today is to conduct specific research of the military leader(s) of either/both the Allied or Axis forces involved in the battle your researched previously.

2. ORGANIZE YOUR WORKSPACE: Have enough room to work so that you can spread out. In front of you have index cards, a pen, and highlighter (spots) . Sit comfortably. Do not sit next to someone to whom you will socialize. Place the book from which you will take notes to the left and index cards to the right. Place unnecessary books, etc. on the floor.

3. FIND RESOURCES: Find biographical information in numerous sources: encyclopedias, specialized biographical encyclopedias, Biography Index, computer programs (SIRS), 920�s and 921�s (check in Catalogue Plus or just go to the 920's and 921�s, which are in alphabetical order according to the person written about, the biographee), chapters and indexes in books about WW2 and the battle, and the verticle file. Mrs. Tuten will show you others. The Internet can also be a great source. Just search for the name in its normal word order and under more general topics. This latter suggestion should always be a rule of thumb�check for the specific but also check under more general topics to find the specific topic within.

4. MAKE BIBLIOGRAPHY CARDS: In that this task may be a little more difficult, continue to make copies of articles and make a bibliography card for every article you locate. Add these alphabetically to your other bibliography cards at the end of the period.

5. TAKING NOTES: Having made the bibliography cards, turn to the articles and begin to locate information about this man in relation to the particular battle you are researching. You may need some additional information concerning how his actions were assessed after this battle, his military background and education, and/or how much experience he had going into this battle. You may research more that one general if time permits. Eventually you will research all important military personnel in this battle who were responsible for decision-making. All of this information must be documented. Look for actions, causes, results of actions, evaluations of effectiveness and ability to handle men and opponents. Remember your controlling purpose and let it guide you in what notes you write down. Remember also to make proper note cards [slug, author/title, note(quotation marks around quotes), and page number(s)]. Really focus on the information you note on cards. If not much information is found on one officer, locate information on other men mentioned in this battle. All of this information must be documented when used in your paper.

6. We�ll have the vocabulary test Tuesday and Voc HW will be due Wednesday�OK? Have a great and safe holiday. Thanks for all of your cooperation this week. You are just really great young people.

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