The Great Gatsby (2022 Q2 Summative Assessment): Home

Day 1:

• Tour of LibGuide
• NoodleTools: Setup project (add Research Question, share with inbox)
• Databases: begin finding historical articles, narrowing focus, and finding best evidence 

  • you must educate yourself on the topic before you can take a position and begin collecting evidence!

Day 2:

• Noodletools: Continue creating your working bibliography (Add every potential source you might include in your final project! You can go back and delete any you don't use later.)
• Noodletools: Begin creating note cards (direct quote and my idea boxes only)
• Work time / teacher check-in

Day 3:

• Noodletools: look at example notecards; continue creating notecards; don't forget to include your parenthetical (in-text) citations for your direct quotes!
• Work time / teacher check-in
• Example Google Research Doc

Day 4:

• Continue working on notecards, focusing on second question, connecting book to complex issue
• Work time / teacher check in

Day 5:

• Work on third research question; continue working on notecards
• Talk about research document (see example) - Ms. Winters' classes
• Reminder of how to export Works Cited from Noodletools - Ms. Winters' classes
• Work time / teacher check in

Day 6: (Mrs. Rinearson's class)

• Talk about research document (see example)
• Continue working on notecards
• Work time / teacher check in
• Reminder how to export Works Cited and put in final document

You will create 3 notecards using at least one database source to answer this question:

How did this complex issue shape the 1920's?

You will create 5 notecards using the novel to answer this question:

How was this complex issue portrayed in The Great Gatsby?

You will create 3 notecards using at least one database to answer this question:

How does this complex issue manifest in American society today?