Your Celebrity WebQuest Assignment

Inquiry Project:

Your assignment is to select a celebrity you'd like to learn more about, complete online research (evaluating your sources for reliability), and present what you learned in the form of a PowerPoint.

As you complete this project you will learn more about doing research on the internet (reading to learn), synthesizing and reporting that research, and correctly citing sources. 

You do need a thumb drive to bring to class every time we go to the computer lab. 

See the tabs above to learn more about this project.  Start out with the "Introduction" tab. 
See due dates and days for the computer lab on the calendar below.

grading for evaluations and presentationS2.doc

 

updated 10/9/10, 11/17/10 

Student Suggestions

What I learned from this is that, not every website/web page as true information, and that not every celebrity is what they say they are. . . . (Gossip is not always true.) The most trustworthy sites are the celebrity's official site, and the fan pages, sometimes bend the truth. I would suggest my celebrity because, I think more people should know about Tony Romo. I learned not every site is real, I think in the future I would check the resources to make sure there true first.  -- Kristopher G.

Always using key words will help you get the exact information that you're looking for.  -- McKenzie P.

In this unit I learned a lot about the computers. The have all sorts of short cut keys that help a lot. I also learned that 7th grade is a whole lot different than 6th and when teachers ask for a specific thing and you don't do it your grades will get worst and worst. I also learned how to use Power Point. -- Wyatt B.

WWhat I would suggest to the other student is get right to work and don't mess around, because if you do that you will not get it done on time and you will have late credit.  --Chase W.

I now know that doing plenty  of research will get you better information than just looking up 2 or 3 sites. -- Sydney W.

  A reading statagie I did was I skimmed through it and when I saw something interesting I stoped and looked. The skimming one was helpful because I fot through it faster.  -- Nikko B.

Some of the reading strategies I used were reading through the entire website first, and then going back and finding information. On one of my sites I decided I didn't want to read the entire thing and so I would just look at the question and then skim through the story and find the answer. But it didn't work. So I did it again; the right way that time. --Sydney C. 

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars good book, May 16, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Words By Heart (Mass Market Paperback)

This year, my eighth grade English class read To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel by Harper Lee. While we read this book, we were assigned to read another book about black struggle as well. I read the novel, Words by Heart, by Ouida Sebestyen. It was a compelling, well-written book about a young, black girl who discovers her place in a white neighborhood in a time of racism. Ouida Sebestyen is a black author whose past was very much like the life of the character of the little black girl. The author of To Kill a Mockingbird on the other hand, is a white woman whose past relates very closely to the character of little white girl. In Words by Heart, the white people were mostly undeveloped and without much character. In To Kill a Mockingbird, the blacks are the undeveloped characters. Both of these books contain very similar ideas about life as a child when racism was very strong. These two books both have similar plots but are seen from two opposite different points of view. When I read Words by Heart, I realized how difficult it would be to go through such a hard time in life without knowing why things were the way they were or what was happening in the world. I was moved by the challenging events the black family had to go through, because I know that racism is one of the hardest things to face in life. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading about black struggle in the history of America.

http://www.amazon.com/Words-Heart-Ouida-Sebestyen/dp/044041346X