Historical Investigation, Day 2 - Class Recap

Another picture from my Spring Break trip to Washington, D.C. in 2010: this is the National Archives building, where the original copies of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution are held. Those are extremely important documents for historians researching the American Revolution!

Hi everyone,

One more class to go until Spring Break! Lots of work to do until then (and probably some during the break, too). Here's what we did today in class:

Learning Targets: 
Knowledge LT 20: I can explain the impacts of nationalism and revolutionary movements.
Communication LT 3: I can effectively use the conventions of writing.
Research LT 1: I can develop and refine a research question or topic.
Research LT 3: I can responsibly and accurately cite sources.
Critical Thinking LT 2: I can explain connections between events, issues, problems and concepts.

Soundtrack: "World Peace" by Rihanna. Selected for today because I was wishing you had a peaceful time with your Explore test yesterday! Lyrics here.

AGENDA 3/18/15:

News Brief - Devon

Research Questions
Finish Part A

Computer Lab S219

Homework: Read the blog! Turn in your Part A research question paragraph ASAP if you did not today. Start working on research for Part B! Next news brief: Nick.

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News Brief: Devon had the news brief today and selected this story to talk about: TheGuardian.com - Israeli mass rally calls for replacement of Binyamin Netanyahu. We talked about the election yesterday in Israel, and that the likely outcome will be Mr. Netanyahu will form a new government with himself as Prime Minister again. I also mentioned that this relates to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because Netanyahu said over the weekend that he does not want a "two state solution." We will look more at that in the next few months.

We also talked about our weekends and the Explore test before moving on for the day.

Research Questions: For this section, I explained how to do research using the Westview Library Website - particularly the Gale Power Search tool. If you can access the internet at home to research for your project, here is the guide for the login and password information that I showed in class.

Finish Part A/Computer Lab S219: After explaining all of this, we headed over to S219 to finish Part A. I wanted to make sure that I approved each research question before you moved on to writing out the whole paragraph for Part A. Hopefully, everyone was able to complete this in class. If not, email it to me ASAP, please. Also, this could have been a time you were looking at what to do for Part B.

I am really looking forward to the Diversity Assembly tomorrow, and you should too! See you on Friday!