McGee+Round+5

=Put a Short Activity/Lesson/Project Title Here=

2) Students will practice analysis on their own. 3) The students will get out there and find their own documents to post in Google Docs. 4) Please identify opportunities for differentiation. ||
 * **Title**: ||< Primary Sources - commentary via web ||
 * **Subject**: ||< United States History ||
 * **Grade**: ||< Juniors ||
 * **Time Frame**: ||< 6 weeks? ||
 * **Summary:** ||< The project will include practice analyzing documents, then finding their own documents for their classmates to analyze, then building up to creating their own essay question and providing the documents to write the question, and providing the written response to those essays they created. ||
 * **Tasks**: ||< 1) Bring in documents to model analysis, using the national archives Document Analysis Worksheets webpage.
 * Be sure to highlight opportunities for students to practice/employ an "early adopter" or lifelong learning skill ||
 * Objectives: ||< * What TEKS or other objectives does this activity/lesson project meet? ||
 * Assessment: ||< How will you assess the students learning?
 * Resources: ||< * What resources will be needed? ||
 * **Teacher**
 * Reflections:** || Please share what went well, what was challenging and what you might tweak or modify for your next round....

The items that when well - we did some modeling over how to analyze documents by giving the students four primary sources from the period we were studying, which is US Expansionism (1870s-1914). The students read the documents to determine if the writer was pro-expansionist or anti-expansionist. If they determined they were pro, they then needed to connect it to the motives for expansionism. They also were to highlight, underline, circle (annotate) items that led them to believe it was pro or anti-expansionist. ||
 * **Examples**: ||< * Links to teacher or student work examples. ||

Discussion:
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