English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 8

ELA21.8.22

Apply ethical guidelines while finding and recording information from a variety of primary, secondary, and digital sources.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Ethical guidelines for using primary, secondary, and digital sources in research.
  • Strategies for finding and recording information from primary, secondary, and digital sources.
  • Primary sources are firsthand accounts of events and provide raw information.
  • Secondary sources explain, analyze, or summarize primary sources.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Apply ethical guidelines to a variety of sources during the research process.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Ethical guidelines exist to protect original ideas and these guidelines should be followed when using information that was created by someone else.

Vocabulary

  • Ethical guidelines
  • Primary source
  • Secondary source
  • Digital source
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