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Researching: Asking the Right Questions Lesson PlanResearching: Asking the Right Questions Lesson Plan
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EngageNY
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7th
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English Language Arts
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Duration
2 hrs
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2014
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Researching: Asking the Right Questions

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  • Full Grade 7 ELA Module 2a (.pdf)
  • Full Grade 7 ELA Module 2a Updates: June 2015 (.pdf)
  • Full Grade 7 ELA Module 2a, Unit 3 (.pdf)
  • Grade 7 ELA Module 2a: Unit 3, Lesson 2 (.html)
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Learners look over the iCare about the iPhone performance task and discuss how it relates to working conditions. They then review the research process and place focus on the step of asking questions. Finally, scholars ask questions to determine how the performance task relates to their research. 

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

research reports, answering questions, forming questions

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Conduct a class discussion to ask if revealing a company's working conditions makes students feel differently about the products

Classroom Considerations

  • Second lesson in Grade 7 ELA Module 2a, Unit 3
  • Uses a teacher-created Researcher’s Roadmap anchor chart

Pros

  • Includes a sample Roadmap Anchor Chart for teacher to create
  • Offers an exemplar completed task

Cons

  • None

Common Core

W.7.7

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