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	<title>Teaching The Outsiders (and more) &#187; Research Papers</title>
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		<title>The Titanic Finally Really Sinks! (Also: Sidekicks.)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 04:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First year ever! No Titanic! O. M. G. The average is about 7 or 8. The record was the 1997-98 school year with, count&#8217;em, 27. There was a renaissance in 2010, with about 20. I&#8217;m talking about research papers. And finally, for the first time since I started at this school in 1993, I won&#8217;t have to plow through another &#8220;all about the Titanic&#8221; nightmare. O. M. G. I&#8217;m just going to savor that thought for awhile&#8230; until some clown &#8220;can&#8217;t find ANYTHING&#8221; on his/her topic, and I cave and say, &#8220;Just do the Titanic.&#8221; Yes, it&#8217;s that time of year once again, the dreaded (by me) research paper. You might ask how I managed to sink the Titanic as a research topic, even as James Cameron and other rich guys celebrate the 100th anniversary of the giant metaphor. I didn&#8217;t use it as an example topic. I went through dozens of topics, both good and bad, as we played &#8220;Is This a Good Topic or Not?&#8221; for a week and a half, and I assiduously made sure I never even mentioned the Titanic as a topic, good or bad. My whole thing on research is that I HATE the &#8220;all about&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Misspelling Ever (Also: Research Rerun)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 03:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When my eighth graders were reading Flowers for Algernon, they all laughed at Charlie&#8217;s spelling in the early Progris  Riport (sic) entries. It happens every time I do that story. But as you all know, Charlie ain&#8217;t got nothin&#8217;  on your typical middle schooler when it comes to creative spelling: radickulus begging (for beginning &#8212; Boy Howdy, I hate that one!) probly Satin-worshiping ballune But while reading their one page samples of their research papers in progress, one girl&#8230; Hold on. I have to interrupt this post with another brief aside. The girl in question here has made great progress this year. I hear that last year, as a seventh grader, she was the epitome of  S and R (sullen and resentful: the teenage default) as well as defiant and etc. She also lived through some things as a kid that no one should have to, and is now being raised by her sister. But she is a sweet girl, who really just needs a dad. Anyway, today she was turned around jabbering with her friend while I was trying to give directions, and I called her on it. I got the perfunctory (vocab word for seventh graders this week) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wish I had at least one this year&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, I&#8217;m not dead yet. Though they are slowly killing me this year. I haven&#8217;t posted much lately because: 1. The kids turned in their research papers last week. I have turn-in timed every year, so that if I read about 12 per day, I finish the day before the last day. This year it&#8217;s going a bit more slowly; I think due to the dearth of original topics. It&#8217;s been like this&#8230;Global Warming, Global Warming, Titanic, Titanic, Global Warming, Holocaust, Titanic, Titanic, Titanic, Global Warming, Ufo&#8217;s, Global Warming. Repeat. I was stoked when I got &#8220;The Impact of Herbicides in the Vietnam War&#8221; and &#8220;How Realistic are Shows Like CSI?&#8221; 2. My TV died, and I&#8217;ve been trying to fix it. I don&#8217;t miss the programming so much; it&#8217;s summer, which means mostly reruns, and there&#8217;s always Hulu. But I am sorely missing my Wii Pinball Hall of Fame (Williams Edition). When I&#8217;m in Vegas in two weeks, my boy and I are going to spend a whole day at the Pinball Hall of Fame. 152 machines! Anyway, it&#8217;s a big 60 something inch monster that I think I can fix for a few bucks. Wish me luck. 3. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ll take 32, please.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 02:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re at the halfway point in the research process; one week in, one week to go. You can tell how exciting this past week has been by the lack of snappy posts.   There are still about a dozen shmarties who basically haven&#8217;t started, but most seem to have something going on. The Titanic is having quite a renaissance this year, clocking in at 20+ kids interested in giving me lists of the many amenities the ill-fated ship offered. Another biggie this year is global warming, at 18+. UFO&#8217;s; Are they spaceships? has about 15 backers. And now that there&#8217;s the excuse of the initiative on the November ballot here in California, legalization of ____ is also a hot topic, also with about 15. (I don&#8217;t need those kinds of ads appearing, thank you very much.) I always tell them, &#8220;As long as Mom knows and approves&#8230;&#8221; Most of them have a bare-bones outline, and some notes&#8230; But you all know that seventh graders and actual research &#8211;skimming, reading, note-taking, etc&#8211; are like oil and vinegar. You have to do a whole lotta shakin&#8217; to get them together. And then, if you let &#8216;em sit for awhile, you hafta shake [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CSI?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 01:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year, I threaten to stop putting myself through this. As I have said before, let social studies or someone else teach the research paper. Let someone else slog through in-text citations. (&#8220;What? After every fact? There&#8217;s gonna be a ton of them.&#8221; Yes, I know.) Let someone else read another encyclopedia paper about the &#8220;History of&#8230;&#8221; Let someone else nitpick over the latest MLA format for the works cited list. Because, you know what? I don&#8217;t really care. My thing is to try to get them to stop with the old putting it your own words thing, and to stop relying on one source so much. I want them to know how to take notes on what they read, and be able to explain what they&#8217;ve learned to someone else, coherently,  in writing. My French teacher back in high school used to say that if you can&#8217;t explain it to someone else then you don&#8217;t really know it. I tend to agree. The kids can&#8217;t cope when I say this. (Aside: Yes, I took French in high school&#8230;only because it was the only language, besides English and Gaelic, our nuns back at St. Mel&#8217;s knew. So our foreign language [...]]]></description>
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