20/02/2012

What We did Today:

Today, we started taking notes for our research project. This was all done at the library. First, we learned how to write out a bibliography.

How to write a bibliography:

Book - Author or editors (last name, first name), title, publishing company, copyright date (most recent), publishing city (Canadian city, closest to Vancouver)

Encyclopedia - title, year/edition, article (what you're looking up in the encyclopedia), copyright date

Online - web address/URL, title-page, author(s), look for "How to Cite this Page," date accessed.

Then, we picked some medieval jobs out of a bucket, researching, and taking notes on who we were! (I got the daughter of the lord :) )

Why we did This:

We learned how to do the bibliography because most of us didn't know how to write out a bibliography.

We picked the names out of the bucket and took notes on them because... that was our project. We were going to need to know those facts for later, when we do our role-playing... yes.

Connections/Reflections

You may have to use the bibliography in any other subject when you do some sort of researching, or a project. And as I always say, it can be used in future careers (;. Role playing can be used in drama class... and also if you want to be some sort of shifty man, you'll need a double-life, and be able to think on the fly... nah, I'm just kidding. Be safe :)

As I said on my last post, I really dislike note-taking... but I LOVE acting and role-playing, so I'm really looking forward to that. So excited! :D

Homework and Tips

If you wrote very little on your notes, you may want to take it home and work on it a bit then, because it'll be good to have a lot of information for the role-playing part. Also, you have to finish chapter nine questions for Tuesday.

You should make sure to write down every source you use to take the notes! And if you have any questions about... the questions, you should post it on the blog so that everyone can help you out. Flex will be tomorrow, see yah guys! (sorry about the short post, it was late after math homework, and I was rushing... also, I couldn't really think of much to write about...