The Odyssey Research Project



The Odyssey Research Project

Introduction

Your friends have a time machine available, but they can't decide where to go. They may want to go to Ancient Greece, but they're not sure. Help them decide to go to Ancient Greece by researching one aspect of Ancient Greece to learn about Homer's life (the author of The Odyssey) and times

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The Task

Pick one aspect of life in Ancient Greece and write a three paragraph research summary for a newsletter describing life in ancient Greece.

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The Process: Exploring the Web, Creating a Product

• Pick a topic to research (topics attached) and define your main idea.

• Summarize important ideas and direct quotations using note cards and following the note card procedures attached. You must have 6 note cards- 2 note cards for 3 different sources-is the minimum.

• Use a variety of reliable primary and secondary sources. See attached sheet on SOURCE SELECTION TIPS.

Primary sources: original records created at the time historical events occurred or well after events in the form of memoirs and oral histories. Primary sources may include letters, manuscripts, diaries, journals, newspapers, speeches, interviews, memoirs, documents produced by government agencies such as Congress or the Office of the President, photographs, audio recordings, moving pictures or video recordings, research data, and objects or artifacts such as works of art or ancient roads, buildings, tools, and weapons. These sources serve as the raw material to interpret the past, and when they are used along with previous interpretations by historians, they provide the resources necessary for historical research. This website will help you select primary sources:

Secondary sources represent analysis of primary sources. Examples of secondary sources are books and articles that review and interpret primary.

• Organize your information in an outline. (Introduction, Body, Conclusion along with specific details)

• Summarize the important parts of your reading into a three paragraph research report-introduction, body, and conclusion.

• You must properly cite your sources and have a citation page included.

Topics: Pick one Ancient Greek Civilization topic to research and write a 3 paragraph research summary.

|War | Politics |

|The First Persian War |government in Greece |

|The second Persian War |law |

|Pericles |administrative justice |

|Peloponnesian War |politics of Sparta |

|Alexander the Great |Philosophy |

|Environment |Greek Philosophy |

|Climate |Socrates |

|Geography |Plato |

|Plants & Animals |Aristotle |

|Geology |Religion |

|Science |God |

|astronomy |Heroes |

|biology |Oracles |

|boats & ships |The five big Gods & Heroes |

|mathematics |Rituals |

|water supply |The Arts |

|medicine |Architecture |

|Sport & Daily Life |Literature |

|agriculture |Sophocles |

|social classes |Euripides |

|slavery |Theatre |

|Olympic Games |Music |

|Wrestling |Religious music |

|The army |Musical instruments |

|Education |Greek sculpture |

|Commerce |poetry |

|women |Greek painting |

|public sector |pottery |

|  |Other Countries |

| |The lost city of Atlantis |

| |Persia |

| |International relations |

| |Pompeii |

Topic:_______________________________________________________________

Main Idea:____________________________________________________________

Creating Your Research Note Cards:

• You will be creating note cards for this research process. You will follow the research note card template below. Make sure that your note cards follow this template EXACTLY!

• You need to have at least 6 note cards – 2 note cards for each source used and you need to use at least three different sources.

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Direct Quotes Rules

Remember that a direct quote is a where you are citing from the source word-for-word. To use a direct quote, you have two options:

1. Make the quote its own sentence. In this case, you take a complete sentence from the article and make it its own sentence in your paragraph.

a. Example: “The tornado flew through the air at speeds above sixty miles per hour” (“Understanding the Tornado”).

2. Make the quote embedded in one of your sentences. In this case, you take the quote and you lead into it with your own words and make the quote grammatically fit into your own sentence.

a. Example: Since “the tornado flew through the air at speeds above sixty miles per hour,” it has gone down in history as one of the most treacherous storms of all time (“Understanding the Tornado”).

• Punctuating Direct Quotes:

o You put quotation marks around all of the information that is directly quoted from the text.

o Any punctuation from the sentence itself goes inside the quotation marks (see the comma above in example #2) unless you have the in-text citation at the end of the direct quote which then goes outside of the quotation mark but inside the end punctuation of the sentence.

Paraphrase Rules

Remember that a paraphrase is where you take the ideas from someone else (such as your article), but you put them in your own words.

Example: The sixty mile per hour speeds o f the tornado make it one of the most treacherous storms of all time (“Understanding the Tornado”).

• Punctuating Paraphrases:

o When you paraphrase, you DO NOT use quotation marks because you aren’t directly quoting anything.

o Instead, you just use the in-text citation at the end of the last sentence of the paraphrase INSIDE the end-punctuation of the sentence.

In-Text Citations

Remember that an in-text citation is where you give credit to the source of the ideas/information that you are using. The in-text citation uses parenthesis (it is often called a parenthetical citation).

• What Goes In the In-Text Citation?

The first thing listed on your citation on your note card, exactly as it is punctuated. It is usually either the author’s last name OR the title of the piece. The in-text citation ALWAYS goes at the END of the sentence INSIDE the punctuation.

Example: The sixty mile per hour speeds o f the tornado make it one of the most treacherous storms of all time (“Understanding the Tornado”).

Works Cited Page:

Remember that the works cited page is the page that you create that lists the sources that you cited in the paper. There is a special format for the works cited page. Use the website to create your final works cited page.

How You Will Be Graded:

You have met the research report standard if you have done the following:

• recorded important ideas and direct quotations from your sources with paraphrases and summaries

• used a variety of primary and secondary sources

• completed at least 6 notecards

• include at least 3 paragraphs – introduction, body, conclusion

• corrected all spelling errors and punctuation

• structured sentences correctly with no verb tense errors

• the report is typed in MLA format

• there is a works cited page attached

Research Outline

Introduction:

Hook/Grabber:

Summary/state main idea:

Thesis statement:

Body:

Topic sentence:

Research (Direct Quote #1/paraphrase):

Commentary:

Research (Direct Quote #2/paraphrase):

Commentary:

Research (Direct Quote #3/paraphrase):

Commentary:

Closing sentence:

Conclusion:

Summarize ideas and restate main idea:

Final thought:

Timeline:

Monday, April 8th: Assign research paper and review guidelines

Tuesday, April 9th: Periods 6 and 7 research in the computer lab and complete note cards(AIMS schedule)

Wednesday, April 10th: Periods 1, 2, and 5 research in the computer lab and complete note cards(AIMS schedule)

Thursday, April 11th: Finish research in computer lab, complete outline, and being typing research paper.

Friday, April 12th: Finish typing research paper and submit to

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Source Information: (use to create this; then copy it down here)

Subject: (this is what the research is related to)

Research: (direct quotes or paraphrases from the above listed source)

Personal ideas generated from this source: (how do you see yourself using this piece of information; where would it fit; how does it support your main idea?)

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