Wednesday, March 4th, 2010 - Friday, March 26th, 2010

This month in Miss Brown's 8th grade English Language Arts and Advanced Language Art's class, students will choose a topic to research; controversial topics and desired careers respectively. Students will spend three days conducting research in the library/computer lab. Thereafter, the students will organize their facts (at least 30 from 3 different types of sourches) and compose a rough draft that they will then have a peer evaluate. Students will incorporate the necessary suggestions and corrections as they type their final draft of their paper. Students will then create a persuasive speech from the information that they were able to gather and from the paper written. Their speeches will need to be informative, persuasive, entertaining and incorporate a visual aid. Students will be conducting presenting their speeches the last week of the 3rd marking period (March 24th - 26th).