[LIT] successes?!

[Bill IVEY]

"A list for improving literacy with focus on middle grades."
<lit at literacyworkshop.org> on Monday, October 9, 2006 at 5:59 pm -0500
wrote:
>What's the Oslis website as I'm doing research soon! Also, anyone else
>have any creative ideas for reserach topics? My school's curriculum
>mandates that we teach a research unit in November, but we can pick the
>topic.  Ideas...anybody??? ;-) 

Hi!

OSLIS is the Oregon School Library Information System. Among other things,
it has an online CitationMaker. Go to
http://www.oslis.k12.or.us/MLACitations/secondary/index.php

As for picking the topic, I would strongly suggest you pass that
responsibility on to the kids. They could each pick a unique topic (Pine
Cobble School, where I used to teach, did that for their "9th Grade
Speech" which was one of their graduation requirements) or they could hold
a discussion, agree on a general theme, and then take off on specific
directions within that theme. You never know what you'll get - but you do
know they'll be engaging with their topic :-)

Take care,
Bill Ivey
Stoneleigh-Burnham School