The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer Research Project for High School
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This resource bundle is designed to promote vocabulary development, evaluate reading comprehension, support critical thinking, and facilitate the process of researching topics related to Susan Beth Pfeffer's dystopian novel The Dead and the Gone, the sequel to Life As We Knew It. Materials are deliPrice $56.00Original Price $70.00Save $14.00
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Facilitate the process of investigating relevant topics, documenting information gathered, and delivering formal speeches with this low-prep, standards-based research project to complement Susan Beth Pfeffer's dystopian novel The Dead and the Gone, the sequel to Life As We Knew It. The focus of the project is natural and human-influenced disasters, covering twenty topics including the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, the flu pandemic of 1918, the tri-state tornado outbreak of 1925, the Fukushima nuclear accident (2011), and Hurricane Maria (2017). A detailed scoring rubric is provided. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. (Alternatively, a Google Drive option is available.)
Ultimately, students will perform the following tasks:
- Articulate connections between a research topic and the assigned novel
- Conduct research using available resources
- Collect and classify reliable sources
- Develop successful methods of recording information
- Evaluate the credibility of source work, taking into consideration readability, date, relevance, expertise, and bias
- Apply conventions of MLA formatting
- Correctly site resources to avoid plagiarism
- Organize information in a cohesive manner, using a note-taking system that includes summary, paraphrasing, and quoted material
- Analyze, synthesize, and integrate information, generating a thoughtfully comprehensive report, free of generalities and redundancies
- Present findings verbally, using their own words
Materials are available for teaching many young adult and dystopian novels:
- 1984 by George Orwell - Google and printable
- Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers- Google and printable
- Feed by M.T. Anderson - Google and printable
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding - Google and printable
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood- Google and printable
- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros- Google and printable
- The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells - Google and printable
