I shared with the students the famous folks I've linked to my website (pictures, quotes, a quick back-story, and that there is a link attached to each that will lead visitors to a legit web site for each human rights advocate). We charted last week's Socratic Discussion onto our Skills Tracking pages as "9/11 practice." We completed a claim/evidence ("circles") work page for Crash Course U.S. History #2 (You tube), capturing the thesis in the box in the center, collecting organized evidence into the evidence circles, and then editing (making more specific) the thesis by use of the conclusion and reviewing the collected evidence. We charted this on our Skills Tracking page under "A/V Claim/Evidence" as "9/14 practice." (The answer key was shared with the students -- edit your pages, and then students scored themselves on the performance.) We then began work in the 2nd textbook "Portrait of America." Each student was assigned one of four different scholarly essays to analyze with a Claim/Evidence ("circles") page; 2 1/2-sheets of instructions were provided. FIRST, though, the students were instructed to Google context/lens information about their author.
