This document provides instructions for students for their research work. It outlines the tasks for the day which include reviewing their research questions and choosing one to focus on, reading their assigned article with a partner and taking notes, and learning how to synthesize information by reviewing a model. Students are directed to use different colored pencils to identify questions and information in their research notebook to focus on for future research. The document emphasizes reading strategies and taking thorough notes to aid in the research process.

1. DO NOW
Entry Task – Review yesterday’s tests
• Read through your test
• Star something you did well!
• Circle something that needs work

2. Lyddie
Learning Objectives
I can read a source, identify and paraphrase
information that helps answer a supporting
research question, and generate effective
supporting research questions.

3. Lyddie
Working Today
Researcher’s Notebook:
• Read your five supporting research
questions from Part II
• Circle one question you will use to guide
YOUR research today

4. Lyddie
Working Today
Researcher’s Roadmap Chart:
• What step did we just do?
• Important to evaluate (judge) your work
• Look at Suggested Texts Chart
• Will work with partner on ONE today
• CLOSED WINDOW partners

5. Lyddie
Working Today
Researcher’s Roadmap Chart:
• How is reading for research different than
reading a novel ?
• What can you do to read information well?

6. Lyddie
Working Today
Researcher’s Notebook:
• DON’T FORGET!!
• Write down important info on your article
in the WORKS CITED part of the notebook
(Source 4)
• Let’s do that before we read…

7. Lyddie
Working Today
Researcher’s Notebook:
• Find a spot to read silently
• Find a teacher for help!!
• Have 10 minutes….

8. Lyddie
Working Today
Researcher’s Notebook:
• Talk to your partner about article
• Decide what to write in the notebook
• Paraphrase important information

9. Lyddie
Working Today
Researcher’s Notebook:
• Look at Section III
• What does it mean to synthesize?

10. Lyddie
Working Today
Researcher’s Notebook:
• Section III = SYNTHESIZE
• Model to look at!
• Read along silently as I read aloud

11. Lyddie
Synthesizing Model
Answers our question:
What are the working conditions
like in the electronics industry?
Working conditions in the electronic industry are sometimes good,
but often bad. For instance, there is some conflicting information
about how Foxconn workers are treated. On one hand, the
company says its workers are treated well. Steve Jobs, the
former CEO of Apple, told The New York Times that even though
Foxconn is a factor,”…they’ve got restaurants and movie theaters
and hospitals and swimming pools, and I mean, for a factory, it’s a
pretty nice factory.” (Duhigg) Workers say that compared to other
factories, it is much cleaner and safer – and recently, Foxconn has
limited the overtime hours workers must work without lessening
their pay. (Huffington Post)

12. Lyddie
Working Today
Researcher’s Notebook:
• Let’s keep re-reading!
• Stop us when you feel the need to
annotate the model
• Where are paraphrases?
• Where are topic sentences?

13. Lyddie
What question does it answer?
Synthesizing Model
However, several incidents lately suggest that the working conditions are
not safe. According to The New York Times, there have been two
separate deadly explosions at iPad factories. Before these blasts, an
independent monitoring group in China had alerted Apple to the
hazardous conditions. Duhigg also reports that two years ago, many
workers were injured when they were forced to clean iPhones screens
with a dangerous chemical. There have been riots at the factory, and
The New York Times reports that this discontent is because, “Employees
work excessive overtime, in some cases seven days a week, and live in
crowded dorms. Some say they stand so long that their legs swell until
they can hardly walk.” But interestingly, some of the workers like these
work long hours. The Huffington Post reported that Wu, a young
employee, said she wants to work overtime. “We work less overtime, it
would mean less money,” she said.

14. Lyddie
What question does it answer?
Synthesizing Model
Investopedia.com reports that Foxconn workers get paid $1.78 per
hour. According to Dateline, the total cost of labor for each
iPhone is between $12.50 and $30.00. That means that if Apple
sells the phones for a few hundred dollars, it is making more than
90% profit. Clearly it can afford to pay the Foxconn workers
more. Lois Woo, a Foxconn executive, told Bill Weir of Dateline
that the company would be open to paying its employees more if
Apple would facilitate that. Some people doubt that will ever
happen. The New York Times quotes a former worker as saying,
“Apple never cared about anything other than increasing product
quality and decreasing production cost… Workers’ welfare has
nothing to do with [Apple’s] interests.”

15. Lyddie
Working Today
Researcher’s Notebook:
• Look at YOUR notebook
• Need three (3) different colored pencils!
• 1st color = circle a question &
paraphrasing you want to research
tomorrow
• 2nd color = new question with info
• 3rd color – new question with info

16. Lyddie
Homework
If you finish early, continue reading
• Finish color-coding your notebook if not
done in class
• Independent Reading Book (15-20 min)
• Project due………