Trip to Mallets Creek

We're spending much of our homeroom time in November working on individual research papers. Each student in our class has chosen an ancient civilization to research and report on.

In addition to in-class research and writing time, we'll be venturing outside of the school for sources. On Wednesday, we visited the Mallets Creek branch of the Ann Arbor Public Library to explore their resources.

After speaking with librarians and consulting the catalog, each student found at least a few different books to use in their reports.

We're using notecards to keep track of information about our subjects, including bibliographic details.

Each student was able to check a couple of items out from the library, which we'll be using in the classroom for further research. We'll visit another branch of the library next week to return books and seek out other sources.

We spent our homeroom time this morning reading through the books we checked out and taking notes for our papers.

Ask your student what civilization they're studying! What books have they been reading about it? Perhaps even consider a family trip to a museum or the library on a weekend to enrich their report!