Extended Essay: Plan of

Attack9/15

Agenda• Review Sources• Create a Plan of Attack

• END GOAL – Understand what you need to do over the next few weeks to get a strong score AND be able to complete a detailed outline

Rubric - Investigation• C: Investigation (Objectives 1 and 3)

This criterion assesses the extent to which the investigation is planned and an appropriate range of sources has been consulted, or data has been gathered, that is relevant to the research question. Where the research question does not lend itself to a systematic investigation in the subject in which the essay is registered, the maximum level that can be awarded for this criterion is 2.

4• An imaginative range of appropriate sources has

been consulted, or data has been gathered, and relevant material has been carefully selected. The investigation has been well planned.

3• A sufficient range of appropriate sources has

been consulted, or data has been gathered, and relevant material has been selected. The investigation has been satisfactorily planned.

2• A limited range of appropriate sources has been

consulted, or data has been gathered, and some relevant material has been selected. There is evidence of some planning in the investigation.

1A range of inappropriate sources has been consulted, or inappropriate data has been gathered, and there is little evidence that the investigation has been planned.

0There is little or no evidence that sources have been consulted or data gathered, and little or no evidence of planning in the investigation.

Key Words• RANGE

• APPROPRIATE

Literature• Book – MAIN SOURCE

• Can you find any outside sources to give you insight?

Not Literature?• YOU NEED A TON OF SOURCES!!!!!!!!!

Range• Articles, documentaries, interviews, newspaper

articles, magazines, books, scholarly journals….

• The more imaginative, THE BETTER

What makes a good source?

• Author?• Public?• Reviewed?• Works Cited?• Where did you find it?• Presentation?• Who else has used it?• What is the opinion about author, topic, and

source?

Plan of Attack• DETAILED plan of the next three weeks.

• September 30 – Present the detailed outline• Oct 2 – Detailed outline due

Plan of Attack• I want to know what you are SPECIFICALLY doing

for each day before then!!!! • Starting on Wed 16th

• It is ok to give yourself days of rest (some of you…)

Plan of Attack• Wed 16 – Use library to find one scholarly journal

and one book about _______________.• Thurs 17 – Read and annotate one of the sources.

Summarize source.• Fri 18 – Read and annotate second source.

Summarize Source.• Sat 19 – Rest• Sun 20 – Watch documentary on Netflix two times

though.• Mon 21 – Go to Seltzer to check out 2nd

documentary ______. . Watch it that night.

Plan of Attack.• Due tomorrow.