The Northern Renaissance And The Southern Renaissance

This particular study began several years ago, the researcher began to notice that students in her tenth grade World Civilizations class were lacking basic skills in writing and proofreading. It was believed that students in the tenth grade would not need to be taught the steps of how to write a basic paragraph, but it became clear that she would need to spend more time teaching the writing and editing process to her students. As stated earlier, the purpose of this study to use technology to help students receive better grades on written assignments. With the problem now decided on, the researcher began brainstorming on ways to improve student writing and editing skills. The researcher has noticed an increase in student use of technology …show more content…
By forcing students to hand write the graphic organizer, they are taking ownership of their thoughts and opinions, but it may also lead to more mistakes with grammar along the way. This was practiced as a class and individually, with a two different topics: The differences between the Northern Renaissance and the Southern Renaissance and the Impact the Plague had on the Renaissance. The class also practiced writing thesis statements for each topic and finding credible sources they would use if they were going to write an essay on one of those …show more content…
This time the topic was “What impact did the invention of the printing press have on the Reformation?” The students were given another graphic organizer to begin to complete on their own. Several class periods was given to the students as research days, including a day with instruction from the Librarian on how to use databases to find sources. At this point the students had completed their graphic organizer, started a working list of sources, and had written a thesis statement. Students had some class time to write a first draft, if they did not finish, they were to finish their first draft over a weekend and return with the first draft completed, typed, and