Rights and Race Research

Senior Seminar
Rights and Race Research Project

100 pts – power point
50 pts - presentation

For the next few weeks we will spending most of our time directly working on or doing support work on a power point project. As we have done in the past, the specific thesis of your research power point will be individually established by each student, but generally will fall with in the subject area involving issues around peoples civil rights or about race in America. The specifics for this project include:

•A Power Point that you will present to the class (see attached rubric)
•10 – 14 slides, 6 lines of text per slide.
•MLA citation methodology
•In-Text citations - 3 paraphrased citations and 3 direct quote citations.
•4 different sources need to be used in the slides.
•A Works Cited Slide (the last slide) – Minimum 5 source listed

As we spend time in the media center I have planned 6 days in the media center for doing research on your topics. For each day each student needs to turn in a “source write-up” sheet. (see Attached) These will be available and due at the end of each day we are in the media center. Late source write ups (not turned in at the end of the hour) will be reduced by 25% each day. These can not be made up after four days. In the case of an excused absence students will be allowed to turn in work the next day but this may need to be done as home work.

Additionally, there is a formal outline that students should use to organize their thinking. A due date will be announced at a later date.

The following issues will be important factors in determining your grade for this project:
Did you fulfill the specifics of the project listed above?
Professionalism of your power point.
Professionalism of your presentation.
When you presented, did you know your topic or did you read it.
Timeliness – was it turned in on time.
Was it well researched – was it evidence/fact based.
Did you analyze the evidence and discuss its importance with regard to your
Thesis.
Did you use evidence as listed above?
Grammar and mechanics – Have anther person proof-read your work.

Research Projects Source Write-ups

Students are expected to produce 3 source write-ups of their research for their senior seminar research papers. Students are to use academic sources from online databases that are scholarly in nature (not just anything from a Google search). For each day we visit the computer lab, students need to read and then write up a summary of one article/source pertaining to their topic. In addition they need to include a specific statement of the authors position/argument listing the data they intend on citing to support their position detailed in the article. This will usually be a solid paragraph in length. They also need to write down the following bibliographic information for each article reviewed:
Title of Website
Title of Article
Author Name
Website URL (address)
Date of Creation
Publisher
Date of Listing
Location of Publication
Page Number

These papers are due at the end of the class period for each day in the lab.