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Course: Library Research Skills (9th Grade) Teachers:
Telephone Numbers: 907-5395/907-5352 Email: dparkes@ross.org /abryant@ross.org Course Description During the Spring Trimester, 9th graders will attend Library Research Skills twice a week. One period a week is spent exploring a specific research skill, and one utilizing that specific skill either in the High School Library, or using the Ross Libraries website. An introduction to Ross Libraries (i.e. Dewey Decimal classifications, check-out system and requesting library materials), navigating the Ross Libraries website, utilizing the Ross Online Catalog and other online catalogs, identifying and documenting different types of print resources, locating, searching and documenting different types of electronic resources (i.e. Ready Reference and Subscription Databases), search strategies, evaluation and documentation of web sites, note-taking and paraphrasing, and defining and understanding plagiarism will be the skills evaluated during this course. Relevant Enduring Understandings
Course Outcomes
By the end of the trimester, students will have completed a series of practicum’s demonstrating their attainment of each library skill. These skills will be furthered assessed when applied to the 9th grade spring trimester research paper.
Requirements/Class
Expectations Students are required to bring their laptop to every lesson unless previously notified. Students should not open their laptops unless specifically asked by a teacher. While using the laptops, students should only be open to Library Research materials. Failure to follow these instructions after one warning will result in the confiscation of the laptop until the following day. Students must arrive on time to all lessons unless they can provide a late pass. Two late arrivals during the trimester will result in a detention. Many of the practicum’s during the trimester will be completed in team format, so respect and cooperation is expected of all students.
Assessment
& Homework Policy All homework assignments will be posted on the library website. In the case that a practicum is not completed during the class period, it will be assigned for homework, due the following class unless otherwise notified. Sections of the spring trimester research paper may also be due for review. All homework should be e-mailed to dparkes@ross.org by 8 am on each due date. If there are any changes to an assignment, students will be notified via the homework page.
Extra Help Extra help is available by appointment using the contact information above. Academic Integrity Plagiarism is a very serious offense and will not be
tolerated. The official Students must make every effort to acknowledge sources of information from their research that were new to them, or may be new in the context of their classes, in both their oral and written work. Forms of academic dishonesty which occur most frequently are: -Copying another student’s work or working collaboratively on projects where cooperative learning is not part of the written assignment. -Failure to give a complete and properly formatted list of works cited and/or referenced for written or oral reports. -Failure to document material derived from a list of works cited and/or referenced with parenthetical citations and/or quotation marks as appropriate. The school prefers the practices for citation and documentation endorsed by the Modern Language Association in its MLA Handbook. -Plagiarism or the intentional use of others’ research, work, or ideas, as one’s own.
A student who knowingly gives her/his own work to another student to be used as the other’s own is equally guilty of intellectual dishonesty as is the student who receives the information.
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Updated 01 March 2010