4+Inquiry+Project+Guidelines

The Inquiry Project The Inquiry Project is roughly an 8-10 week independent project where you move through the process of inquiry to make new discoveries, generate new questions, and formulate new insights about your one idea with the help of research, writing, and discussion. In total this project is worth 300 points. This project includes:


 * A starter topic and question (chosen from the WORD LIST)
 * Research from any sources you choose: some mix of media, writing, film, literature, etc.
 * Writing in many drafts and forms, with many revisions, to turn in 4 full, completed and revised final essays (Your Foundation Piece plus 3 other essays of your choice)
 * An Annotated Works Cited of all sources
 * A Google website to showcase your writing and sources, all supplemented and “decorated” by images that add to the general theme of the project
 * A presentation of the entire project

Sound fun yet?


 * Goals of the Inquiry Project ** :


 * A deepening and **widening of knowledge** on a specific topic; some noticeable learning that occurs from your first piece of writing on the topic to your last
 * A cultivation of **original thinking**
 * A development of **research skills**: the ability to find and evaluate a wide variety of sources and cite them like a skillful and professional academic
 * A marked **improvement in a variety of writing** genres (analytical, personal, creative)
 * ** Synthesis skills ** to take research, writing, and images and create a cohesive website to showcase your new skills
 * ** Organizational and time management skills ** to juggle an independent project over a half semester’s time with few reminders from a teacher