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Compare and Contrast | Venn Graphic Organizer Organizer your Creative Hunt Analyses. Open your historical overview paragraphs. Now that you have synthesized information about the events, figures, ideas that you researched, it is time to infer how these things changed people and altered history. We will begin this process by considering our thinking visible using the Venn Graphic Organizer. On the left and right of the graphic organizer, record your ideas about what made the events, figures, ideas unique to their exact time and place in history. In the center, record your ideas about what made them similar. Studio Time | Writer's Conferences Things you should have completed by now or should be currently working on:
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Do Now Read Neal Armstrong's recollection of approaching the moon. What makes this event so memorable?
Turn and Talk | What makes our memories so memorable? Headlines Routine | Historical Research
If you were to write a headline for the historical topic you have been researching the past two weeks right now that captured the most important aspect that should be remembered, what would that headline be? Mix and Mingle | Historical Research Share out your headline, listen to a headline. Historical Overview Paragraph | Historical Compare and Contrast Essay The historical overview introduces your audience to the historical context of your essay. It contains at least a paragraph for both the historical and modern events, figures, or ideas you researched. This paragraph explains the What, When, Where, Who, How, Why of the historical events/people/ideas. Open Google Classroom. Click on the assignment titled Historical Overview Paragraphs | Historical Compare and Contrast Essay. Review the directions for theses paragraphs. Consider Addie's paragraph as an example. Begin writing your first historical overview paragraph. We will continue writing these paragraphs with a final deadline of Friday, April 20, 2018.
Rubric | Historical Overview Paragraphs Learning Objectives
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Research | Creative Hunt Source Analyses Historical Research: You must complete one creative hunt with two different sources.
Modern Research: You must complete one creative hunt with two different sources.
Writer's Conferences Each of you will meet with Addie or Dan today to discuss your progress in this trimester, specifically in regards to research and creative hunts. During this time, we will organize your trimester three binder section to include:
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Research | Creative Hunt Source Analysis Remember, for the historical essay, you need to find and analyze at least five sources - one primary source, one secondary source, one newspaper article, one scholarly article, one source of your choice. Be sure to document where the source came from in detail as you will need to create a works cited for your historical essay. At this point, you should have two completed Creative Hunts. If you do not, you are behind and should sign up for after school guided work time with Addie and Dan. Along with recording notes about what, when, where, who, how, why, answer the following questions about the sources you find and read:
Historical Compare and Contrast Essay | Definition Paragraphs Directions A compare and contrast essay analyzes both the similar qualities amongst essays as well as compares the differences. When constructing this essay, first determine your purpose, which will ultimately be your thesis statement and the argument of your paper. Next consider the similarities and the differences in order to create a structure for a paper in which you will argue the effectiveness of the essay. Your introductory paragraph must contain a thesis statement: topic + opinion. To begin this, consider the themes that run through all three essays. Remember theme is a statement about the human experience or about societal issues the author makes in their writing. You must include both direct and indirect evidence (quotes) to support your argument. In order to receive full credit: make a claim, provide the evidence, and explain why the evidence proves your claim. Components
Definition Paragraph: The definition paragraph introduces your audience to your interpretation of the topic. This paragraph will answer the majority of the closed questions you researched, but it also needs to include your personal understanding of the topic. This paragraph is where you will explain the What, When, Where, Who, How, Why of the historical events/people/ideas that you have begun to research.
wednesday, april 4, 2018 | what information do we need to understand our historical events?4/4/2018 Learning Objectives
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Historical Event | Connect, Extend, Challenge What information do we need to understand out historical events? On the board Addie has written some things she thinks you need to research in order to understand your historical event. Turn and talk to your table mate. Answer the following question together, write on a piece of paper and then transfer to the board.
Academic Research | Creative Hunt Source Analysis For the historical essay, you need to find and analyze at least five sources - one primary source, one secondary source, one newspaper article, one scholarly article, one source of your choice. Be sure to document where the source came from in detail as you will need to create a works cited for your historical essay. Along with recording notes about what, when, where, who, how, why, answer the following questions about the sources you find and read:
Exit Slip | One completed Creative Hunt Source Analysis Learning Objectives
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Library | Initial Research Today we will travel to the library to learn how to research without the Google. You will need your computer, your Creative Hunt, and your jacket. After the library research presentation, you will research the historical topic you chose. Your exit slip is to fill out a digital version of the Creative Hunt Source Analysis we completed together for 9/11 in the last class period. This is created and submitted in Google Classroom.
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Shared Experiences, Different Perspectives | Quick Jot, Mix n' Mingle Close your eyes. Think back to the very first day of the school year. Your first day as a freshman at Étude High School. Start to recall what we did that day. Picture yourself walking to Fountain Park - the people you walked with, the thoughts rolling through your mind, the sounds, smells, sights in the background, the way you felt. Now open your eyes and respond in a quick jot to the following prompts:
Evaluating Sources | Quick Responses Primary Source: Told from the perspective of an individual that directly witnessed or experienced the event that is being discussed. Secondary Source: Told from the perspective of an individual that was not directly involved, but instead researched the event, relaying the information they have found to be true. Creative Hunt | Source Analysis As you research your two historical events/people, you will be required to complete the Creative Hunt Source Analysis. On one side you will annotate a primary source. On the backside you will annotate a secondary source and compare the two sets of information. Today will practice this together by considering a primary and secondary source from the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
PRIMARY: Debate in the House of Representatives on USA Patriot Act of 2001 SECONDARY: Civil Liberties Today HYBRID
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Recall | Headline Routine Today we will begin to reflect upon our panel experience by capturing the essence of the experience itself within a headline. Construct a newspaper headline that captures the essence of one of the events, historical figures, or past social perspective discussed by one of the panelists. If you were to write a headline for this event, historical figure, or past social perspective right now that captured the most important aspect (memory, emotion, experience, etc.) that should be remember, what would that headline be? Discussion | I Used To Think....Now I Think We will continue our reflection of the panel experience through the I Used To Think...Now I Think routine. Complete a quick jot of the following questions to better prepare yourself for the discussion.
Research + Exit Slip | Creative Hunt Explore the following historical events, figures, wars based on your personal interests. Respond to the things in you read in the Creative Hunt handout. This is your exit slip for today
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Do Now | Quick Jot Recall Last Thursday we completed a See, Think, Wonders that encouraged us to think about the ways history has been recreated. We used this information to consider external factors that cause changing social perspectives. For example, one group looked at an image that captured the assassination of President John F. Kennedy as well as the moment the second airplane hit the World Trade Center. what causes changing social perspectives?
Interview Questions | Turn and Talk Check out the beautiful lady below. That is Addie's great grandma. This past October she celebrated her 104th birthday. That's right, 104-years-young! It is safe to say she has seen quite a few things during her lifetime! Today we are going to create a set of interview questions by assuming we are about to interview her. Turn and Talk If you had to categorize types of historical questions to ask Great Grandma, what might be some of the categories you would consider? (hint: consider the themes we discussed about changing social perspectives) Share and Record Share out the categories you discussed with your partner as Addie records on the board. Interview Questions | Question Start
Now that we have some question categories, create more specific questions to Great Grandma using the Question Start thinking routine.
Interview Protocol | Procedures and Expectations On Wednesday, we will be interviewing some adults from the Senior Community Center. They will be visiting our classroom and answering some of the probing questions we created today. What is the protocol for interviewing these individuals? Exit Slip | Question Starts Handout Learning Objectives
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Recall | Social Perspectives Social: a collective group of people and their organization (society) Perspective: an attitude, way of understanding or seeing something, point of view Social Perspectives: The attitudes, understandings, views of a society during certain time periods. Young Adult Perspective | What has helped shape your understanding of the world? Quick Jot As young adults just beginning your high school experience, you have a unique perspective of the world. But why? And what has helped shape this perspective? Select one person in the group to be the recorder. As a group, consider the essential question What has helped you shape your understanding of the world?. Be as a specific as possible (consider the examples below). The recorder needs to write down all of your responses to the essential question. After time is called, select three examples to record on the board for discussion. Select another member of the group, if necessary, to record these three examples. We will discuss examples as a group, so be prepared to further explain your selections.
History Recreated | What social perspectives are represented in these images? How have social perspectives changed despite similar events happening in the world around us?
Whip Around Can you think of any events, people or mistakes that have been made in history multiple times? See, Think, Wonder Silently complete a See, Think, Wonder by writing directly on the image provided. You may also silently respond to your group members' written comments. This initial thinking routine needs to be done individually.
Changing Perspectives | What social perspectives are represented in these images? How have social perspectives changed despite similar events happening multiple times throughout history? Discussion As a group, discuss your See, Think, Wonder responses. Also discuss the following questions:
Exit Slip: HOW HAVE SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES CHANGED DESPITE SIMILAR EVENTS HAPPENING MULTIPLE TIMES THROUGHOUT HISTORY? WHAT CAUSES CHANGING SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES? |
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