February 20, 2012

What We Did Today

Today, we went to the library to get started on our research project for our middle ages characters. We started off with talking about our research/role-play project. We talked about where everyone gets a job at random and we had to research, for example what the job did, and how the person in the middle ages lived. For example the job I had to research was a Page (a boy training to be a knight) so I decided to research the clothing, duties, food, and house/ living. After talking about what we had to do for this, we had to copy the information about how to make a bibliography including citing a website and how to make a bibliography using a book, encyclopaedia, or a website. For more information about bibliographies, look on the “Lees Hum 8 @ FH” under web links “bibliography information” or click on the link bibliography information. After drawing a job from the box we sat in groups then started our research and I worked on it until the end of the block.

Why We Did It

We talked about what to do on the project because we hadn’t gone over what to do on the project. We talked about how to make a bibliography because most of us didn’t know how to make one properly. To make a bibliography of a book, first you need to have the title of the book and then the author or authors and the editor or the editors of the book. Then you need to have the publishing company, then the copyright date of the most recent edition. Then you need to have the publishing city ideally choosing a Canadian city over international/the US and choose a city closest to Vancouver. We had to start on the research part of the project because we only had two days to research everything and we had to finish taking notes because the notes are due Friday.

Connections/ Reflections

Talking about making a bibliography could help us in the future for some kind of job and other research projects for classes like math, science, French and other subjects. For making bibliographies in the future, it will help when you write the bibliography in the right way so you don’t have to fix mistakes later. You should always check if you wrote a bibliography in the right
way before handing it into the teacher.

Homework and Tips

For homework you should finish the notes of your character if you haven’t finished it yet because it is due Friday. Also “There Will Be Wolves” chapter 9 questions are due Wednesday. For tips I suggest you study for the “There Will Be Wolves” chapter 1-5 quiz which is on Wednesday. Good luck on the research project and the quiz.