home

=Teaching American History Grant Year 4: America in Revolution and Conflict= June 19-21, 2012 at Montcalm Area ISD ISD Consortium of Mid-Michigan

Tuesday, June 19
Wiki documents: Memoirs of Truman and Administration Officials [|Truman Library: Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb] [|Potsdam Declaration] ||
 * 8:30 – 9:15 || Tim || Historical Thinking ||
 * 9:15 – 10:00 || Troy || Argumentative writing
 * Understanding persuasion and argumentation with HIllocks
 * Entering the Academic Conversation: They Say/I Say ||
 * 10:00 – 10:15 ||  || Break ||
 * 10:15 – 11:45 || Tim || Significant inquiry question, create groups
 * Within the administration: Using the bomb to shorten the war
 * Within the administration: Using political diplomacy instead
 * Scientific community: Identifying concerns about unleashing the force of nuclear weapons ||
 * 11:45 – 12:15 ||  || Lunch ||
 * 12:15 – 12:45 || Troy || Explaining Group Multimedia Presentation ||
 * 12:45 – 1:30 || Tim || Intro to Primary Sources
 * 1:30 – 2:00 || Troy || Intro to Zotero
 * Download
 * Screencasts ||
 * 2:00 – 2:15 ||  || Break ||
 * 2:15 – 2:45 || Troy || Explaining Individual Argumentative Essay ||
 * 2:45 – 3:20 ||  || Work time ||
 * 3:20 – 3:30 ||  || Freewrite/reflection ||

Wednesday, June 20

 * 8:30 – 9:15 || Tim || Think aloud with DBQ, CCSS ||
 * 9:15 – 11:15 ||  || Work Time - individual writing and group project ||
 * 11:15 – 11:30 ||  || Reconnect ||
 * 11:30 – 12:00 ||  || Lunch ||
 * 12:00 – 1:00 || Troy || Modeling The Writing Process: Toulmin Model of Argumentation
 * MDE ELA WAC Document (with Toulmin Model beginning on page 138)
 * ReadWriteThink Persuasion Map ||
 * 1:00 – 3:00 ||  || Work Time - individual writing and group project
 * Troy's Sample Essay ||
 * 3:00 – 3:30 ||  || Freewrite/reflection ||

Thursday, June 21

 * 8:30 – 9:15 || Tim || Review historical empathy ||
 * 9:15 – 9:45 || Troy || Intro peer review groups ||
 * 9:45 - 10:00 ||  || Break ||
 * 10:00 – 11:00 ||  || Peer Response Groups for Individual Essays
 * Author identifies 2-3 concerns
 * Author reads aloud, responders take notes
 * Responders discuss, author takes notes
 * Author responds, makes a plan ||
 * 11:00 – 11:30 || Troy || Zotero
 * Inserting sources
 * Creating bibliographies
 * Word Processor Plug-In ||
 * 11:30 – 12:00 ||  || Lunch ||
 * 12:00 – 1:00 ||  || Group Prep ||
 * 1:00 – 2:15 ||  || Cross Group Presentations of Multimedia Arguments
 * Conference Room - Back Tables
 * With Truman: Prezi
 * Opposing Truman
 * Scientists: Capzles and History Channel Video
 * This Room - Front Tables
 * With Truman
 * Opposing Truman
 * Scientists ||
 * 2:15 – 2:30 ||  || Break ||
 * 2:30 – 2:45 ||  || Freewrite/reflection ||
 * 2:45 – 3:30 ||  || Discussing assessment, CCSS, rubrics, etc
 * Bernajean Porter's Digitales Multimedia Evaluation Guides ||

Additional Resources

 * Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium
 * Shared Google Doc: Argumentation and Persuasion
 * Shared Google Doc: Troy's Sample Essay
 * CCSS
 * 6-8
 * 9-10
 * 11-12
 * MDE Social Studies Writing Across the Curriculum Document
 * Argumentative v. Persuasive Writing - Smekens Educational Solutions
 * Mary Jo's Templates
 * [[file:Argumentative Essay Template.pdf]]
 * [[file:Argumentative Essay Template.docx]]