Writing is due today...due yesterday, but I was absent -- score sheets were distributed for students to staple to the top of their paragraph. (The hard copy printouts of the paragraph should be highlighted to show text structure and an UNhighlighed digital copy uploaded to turnitin.com) We set up our new CQ page "A New Republic CQ" and transferred the Shay's Rebellion video CQs from yesterday (on the old CQ page) to this new page and then also added a list of some Founding Father and Mother's names as possible CQ research. We also set up our new EQ page -- "A New Republic EQ" -- #1 "Was the U.S. Revolution revolutionary?" (and together clarified "revolution/revolutionary" to mean "big change). On the back side of the EQ page we set up this second essential question: "Who is a revolutionary?" We went through a "Founder or Not" quote slideshow to get us thinking about our founding era, it's ideas, and to remind ourselves of the very human nature of our historic people. Then, our analysis began by picking through carefully the "Founding Fathers" and "Founding Mothers" packet of info I condensed for them -- work collaboratively to pull out as many ideas and examples for E.Q. #2 -- to be finished in class tomorrow.
