... also have questions specific to their own animal. The children begin to write their questions, and the teacher helps them. III. Read, Research, and Take Notes-  The next couple of days, the teacher gathers the children together and does their research on Triceratops. The teacher puts the index cards in ... questions as big as possible with a thick marker so that all the children can see them. As the teacher reads about Triceratops from encyclopedias and books, the children stop teacher when they hear something that answers one of the questions or when they want to add a fact to the Int...

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• Grade Level: High School

... head. The weekend (or night) before comes. I have all of my research done. Everything is highlighted on my photocopies. I have scraps of paper in the books in pages that I thought I might find useful. Now what do I do? Write note cards and then an outline as it was drilled into me since I ... by sitting at my computer, with my copies and books strewn around me. My copies are single-sided, stapled in the left hand corner and highlighted in yellow. There is no writing on the pages except for the original printing: Natalie has notes all over her copies. The books I have are usually compilat...

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• Grade Level: High School

... would hit himself when he got upset. He once took a stapler and cracked himself in the forehead. He made me laugh, and I enjoyed that class a lot because we would read books quite often or he read them to us. Then we were supposed to write something about the book or draw pictures about what we read. So I tried to write a paper ... to write anything. He just wanted us to speak off the top of our heads, but he did not mind if we had notes. That class was my favorite because I like to talk a lot and it was fun for me to get up in front of the class (and they had to listen to whatever I ha...

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• Grade Level: High School

... would hit himself when he got upset. He once took a stapler and cracked himself in the forehead. He made me laugh, and I enjoyed that class a lot because we would read books quite often or he read them to us. Then we were supposed to write something about the book or draw pictures about what we read. So I tried to write a paper ... to write anything. He just wanted us to speak off the top of our heads, but he did not mind if we had notes. That class was my favorite because I like to talk a lot and it was fun for me to get up in front of the class (and they had to listen to whatever I ha...

• Word Count: 1369
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School