7th Grade Independent Reading Project

Mission:

The mission of the CBA Markert Library program is to teach information literacy in collaboration with classroom teachers within the context of the content curriculum, inspire and develop a love of reading, and provide diverse materials and services to enable students to become life-long learners and effective users of information.

**Big 6 Research Method**
	1.1. Define the problem 1.2 Identify the information requirements	Task: Write a summary for a fiction book you pick out from the library. Make a powerpoint, Prezi, or video book trailer. Do a Works Cited page for your fiction book. If you include book reviews in your trailer, cite those, too. You will hand in the summary to Mrs. Koster, and the Works Cited page and book trailer to Mrs. Shull.
	2.1 Determine kinds of sources 2.2 Prioritize sources	Your book must be a title owned by the library. *Genres:* Action/adventure Romance/chick lit Science fiction/Fantasy Sports Historical Fiction Reality
	3.1 Locate actual resources 3.2 Locate information	Use the Fiction Collection in the library. Either check out a book, or use a book you own that is also owned by the library. Book Trailers: Matched Bridge to Neverland City of Lost Souls Abandon
	4.1 Engage (read, view, interview) 4.2 Extract (make notes)	Remember that you can only have ONE paragraph to describe your book, no longer than 8 sentences. Citation generator MLA date format: day month year Heading example: 21 September 2010 Works Cited example: 21 Sep 2010
	5.1 Organize information 5.2 Present information	Make sure that your Works Cited page follows MLA formatting: 1" margins, 12 point Times New Roman font, with resources in alphabetical order in hanging format. See the video for 7th grade hanging format Example Works Cited MLA basics for 7th grade For your video: Prezi, or software you may have at home, such as iMovie, Microsoft Movie Maker, or Adobe Premiere Elements. Videos are limited to 90 seconds; powerpoints are limited to 90 seconds/10 slides.
	6.1 Judge the product 6.2 Judge the process	What did you learn about writing a summary? What did you learn about genre? What did you learn about presentation?
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Big 6 Research Method

1.1. Define the problem

1.2 Identify the information requirements

Task:

Write a summary for a fiction book you pick out from the library.

Make a powerpoint, Prezi, or video book trailer.

Do a Works Cited page for your fiction book. If you include book reviews in your trailer, cite those, too.

You will hand in the summary to Mrs. Koster, and the Works Cited page and book trailer to Mrs. Shull.

2.1 Determine kinds of sources

2.2 Prioritize sources

Your book must be a title owned by the library.

Genres:

Action/adventure

Romance/chick lit

Science fiction/Fantasy

Sports

Historical Fiction

Reality

3.1 Locate actual resources

3.2 Locate information

Use the Fiction Collection in the library. Either check out a book, or use a book you own that is also owned by the library.

Book Trailers:

4.1 Engage (read, view, interview)

4.2 Extract (make notes)

Remember that you can only have ONE paragraph to describe your book, no longer than 8 sentences.

Citation generator

MLA date format: day month year

Heading example: 21 September 2010

Works Cited example: 21 Sep 2010

5.1 Organize information

5.2 Present information

Make sure that your Works Cited page follows MLA formatting: 1" margins, 12 point Times New Roman font, with resources in alphabetical order in hanging format.

See the video for 7th grade hanging format

Example Works Cited

MLA basics for 7th grade

For your video:

Prezi, or software you may have at home, such as iMovie, Microsoft Movie Maker, or Adobe Premiere Elements. Videos are limited to 90 seconds; powerpoints are limited to 90 seconds/10 slides.

6.1 Judge the product

6.2 Judge the process

What did you learn about writing a summary? What did you learn about genre?

What did you learn about presentation?