In Class Nevada Native American Research Paper

You have been assigned to research one of the Nevada Native American Tribes (Ute, Shoshone, Paiute, Mohave or Washoe) .  You will be required to review textual and multimedia information.  Take notes to prepare and be prepare to share your information with your group.

Native American Reports should including the following:

1. Cover Page 
2. Table of Contents
3. Region
4.Clothing
5. Diet
6. Beliefs/traditions
7. Bibliography
8. Glossary (optional)

PREWRITING

The Categories(Big Ideas) in your paper include:
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​Region
Where did they live? What was the environment? What were the natural resources that they use?

Clothing
What did they wear? What did they make their clothes out of? What did their clothing look like?

Diet
What did they eat?  How did they get their food?  (Hunting, gathering, farming) How did they cook/prepare their food?

​Beliefs/traditions
Did they have any special religious beliefs, superstition, legends or traditions?

​Make a Plan


​Make a KWL Chart for your 4 Categories


​Conduct Research
Now that you know the topics you need to include in your report, it is time to start your research. 

Remember, you do not need to write your research notes in complete sentences. Write down the FACTS that you found using bullets with just a few words.

Writing the First Draft

Now you are ready to start writing.

Start with an introduction paragraph to introduce your whole paper. This paragraph should include an attention getter/hook, background information about  Native Americans and your topic sentence that includes the tribe you researched.

Then you will write a paragraph or two on each category (Big Idea). Start each section with a heading. 

Finally write your conclusion paragraph.

Revise and Editing
The next step is to revise and edit your first draft. Revise means to add or delete things to make you paper better. Ask yourself:
  • Does this sound right?
  • Is my paper repetitive?
  • Did I use good, strong words or do I need to add some?
  • Are all my words spelled correctly?
  • Did I start each sentence with a capital letter?
  • Are all proper nouns(names of people, places and things) capitalized?
  • Did I end each sentence with a period?

Final Draft


​Bibliography


​Table of Contents


​Glossary