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Genocide Inquiry Digital Textbook Assignment Things You Will Need and Use: Part One: What do you want to know? Part Two: Researching your question You will need to find the following to include in your digital textbook: Part Three: How you will present your work
 * Your novel
 * The internet
 * []: This is the site where you will post your textbook
 * [|www.youtube.com]: Use YouTube to find videos related to your inquiry **NOTE: FORUM HAS BEEN CHANGED TO A WIKI**
 * []: Use ONLY this site to find images for you textbook **NOTE: Now students will be using** [|**Creative Commons Canada**] **to access even more copyright free images and videos**
 * Inquiry planning booklet
 * Record your topic on your Inquiry Outline
 * Choose a question or comment from your sticky notes in your novel and record it as a question on your Inquiry Outline
 * Begin your research: Record your sources in your Inquiry Planner **,** you will need to include them in your digital textbook
 * Write down questions in your planner
 * Choose a more focused topic for your inquiry
 * Research to answer your question
 * Images to support your findings
 * Video to support your findings (if possible)
 * Your digital textbook will include a written report that presents the answers to your inquiry
 * You can also include video and images that support your research
 * You will present this on a forum called YouthVoices.com.
 * You will need to join our classroom group and will post your work within that framework.
 * Your work will be seen by many people. Editing and revising is very important. Please be sure that you do not have any spelling mistakes.
 * You must include a formal bibliography and give proper credit for all images and video that you include.

Inquiry Outline

__Planning:__ Topic: __Genocide__

After reading your novel, record questions from your sticky notes that you would like to answer in your inquiry:

__Gathering:__ As you engage in your inquiry write down more questions as they come to you:

__Processing:__ Choose a more focused topic for your inquiry: _

Record a question that you have about your topic that you would now like to answer. Record your research on paper.

What videos/images will you include in your digital textbook? Record their sources here.

Record anything that you are reminded of that you already knew or that reminds you of something else while you research.

Resources that I used to gather information (include specific titles, places, people and websites):

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