Download Criterion B - Investigating

WORLD WAR I RESEARCH QUESTION
Directions: Your goal is to meet achievement level 7-8 for IB Criterion B –
Investigating. Try to start your research question with the word “HOW” or “WHY”.
Create an action plan to investigate your question. Follow your action plan. Collect
and record information from four sources. Write/type your response. Your answer
should be between 250-300 words.
This research question should primarily focus on America’s involvement in the war.
TOPICS TO CONSIDER
Selective Service Act
Liberty bonds
trench warfare
Zimmerman telegraph
Lusitania
Woodrow Wilson
14 Points/Treaty of
Versailles
isolationism/neutrality
unrestricted warfare
propaganda
alliances
League of Nations
TEACHER
GRADE
SELFASSESSMENT
TOTAL POINTS
POSSIBLE
2
RESEARCH QUESTION
3
PLAN
10
NOTES
5
ANSWER
3
WORKS CITED
2
CONVENTIONS
-1 POINT PER DAY LATE
TOTAL POINTS RECEIVED OUT OF 25
Achievement
Level
0
1–2
3–4
5–6
7–8
Criterion B - Investigating
The student does not reach a standard described by any of the descriptors
below.
The student formulates a very general research question AND makes a limited
attempt to follow an action plan to investigate a question AND collects and
records limited information, not always in line with the research question AND
makes a limited attempt to address the research question.
The student formulates an adequate research question AND partially follows an
action plan to investigate a research question AND uses a method or methods to
collect and record some information in line with the research question AND
partially addresses the research question.
The student formulates a clear research question AND satisfactorily follows an
action plan to investigate a research question AND uses methods to collect and
record appropriate information in line with the research question AND
satisfactorily addresses the research question.
The student formulates a clear and focused research question AND follows an
action plan effectively to investigate a research question AND uses methods
accurately to collect and record appropriate and varied information in line with
the research question AND effectively addresses the research question.
 Write a research question. The question must be a higher level
question that starts with HOW or WHY and has an answer that
can be discovered through research.
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 What is your thesis/claim (statement you are arguing)?
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(This should be included in your opening and closing paragraphs.)
 What are three reasons that support your thesis/claim?
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2. ___________________________________________________
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3. ___________________________________________________
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 What research and class notes will you use to develop your three
supporting reasons?
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2. ___________________________________________________
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3. ___________________________________________________
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Your FINAL DRAFT should include an introductory paragraph that
contains the thesis, a supportive paragraph that includes evidence of
RESEARCH that addresses the answer to your question (only!),
and a concluding paragraph that restates the thesis.