Intervention+Project+Requirements

You and a partner are going to develop a wikispace page that uses several types of text structures in order to provide information on the product that you select. The product can be anything you wish (as long as it meets Ms. Pyne's approval). If you want to explore the hamburger in depth - go for it. If you choose to become a guru in the invention and use of the video game, then divide and conquer!
 * Sooo...what are we doin'?**

To become more comfortable with the different types of nonfiction text structures, you are going to use at least three different types of text structures in your wikispace. You will need to label each and them and highlight key words that you use in your writing the signal which text structure you are using.
 * Why are we doin' it?**

The more comfortable you feel with text structures and why they are used in different situations, the better reader you become. You will have more insight into why an author chooses to write the way he or she does and will be able to make more informed decisions about the nonfiction that you read.

Glad you asked! 1. Select a partner - if you want one - and a topic. Be sure to keep your topic relatively general so that you can find enough information on it. 2. Use a graphic organizer to brainstorm as many topics as you can for each text type. The more you brainstorm, the more options that you have in case one does of your ideas does not work out. 3. Once you are done brainstorming, select **at least three (3)** text structures that you will plan to use in your wiki. 4. You are now ready to research! You may use search engines, but remember that you are citing the page that the search engine found and not the search engine itself (Google is not a source). DO NOT copy and past information into a word processing document - it becomes too easy to plagiarize. Take notes and then use your own words. Use some of the signal words for a particular text type so that it is easily identifable. **Remember - You need to give credit to your source. So highlight the web address (CTRL-C) and then paste it underneath the paragraph or sentences you write (CTRL-V).**
 * What are the steps that we need to complete this?**

Here is the schedule for the next two weeks...

What will do when we are done? When you complete this, you will go onto Study Island and post test in Text Organization - 20 questions. Please see Ms. Pyne to determine what level you should be taking. 