EL Unit 1

You have received a job offer from a nationwide company that needs workers with great growth potential in all 50 of its state offices. The supervisor wants to make sure the person who takes each job will be willing to stay and grow in the location assigned. The supervisor needs her employees to be happy and confident that they will thrive in and contribute to the community where they will work. She asks you to present to her a rationale for your choice of location before she signs the final paperwork.Based on the challenge you have been given above, use a process of research in order to present your answer in a rationale of at least 5 paragraphs.

1. Formulate a broad over-arching question to guide your research. Record your questions on the blue handout and at the top of a Google Doc. Begin your your question with “Why…”
2. Add 3 narrow focus questions to help you gather evidence to support and justify your choice. To develop those questions, make use of the ESPRAT+G web site. One of your focus questions needs to explore the physical geography of the state, that is, the landforms and climate that it offers. You may select whatever other two categories of inquiry are most interesting to you and your quality of life. Other portions of the web site might help you formulate questions about other aspects of the state’s culture.
3. Next, make a copy from this template. Use it to collect citations for each source used to learn new information. Record notes in your own words on your Google Doc.
4. Search within databases to record information to answer your research questions.
   1. Use your teacher’s Canvas course to get into the library’s resources. Tips.
   2. Choose to work with the following databases:
      1. Kids InfoBits
      2. Inside “Gale Virtual Reference Library” on the “Nation and World” shelf, you will find a book called Blackbirch Kid’s Visual Reference of the United States.
      3. Culturegrams
      4. American History in Context
5. If you choose to work with other resources from the internet, use EasyBib to develop your citations. Use MLA-8 format.

More Resources:

Topographical map of US:  Map 1

Major Cities of the US:  Map 2 

Cultural Regions of the US:  Map 3

Trip Advisor: link. Tourists use this site to investigate “things to do” in cities. It is “open source” on the Internet. (What does that mean?)

American Nations: A history of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America (2011) at 970.004 Woo