Establish a classroom atmosphere that celebrates the sharing of learning. Have opportunity for students to practice new learnings. Make student learning available to the larger community, i.e. books students write are shared with other classes, students report in school paper, student work is displayed at school, etc.

Students share diaries with classmates and answer the Essential Question.

Objective: To apply information to complex personal experiences.

Activity: Students share their completed projects. Students break into teams and using
websites, form their hypotheses on “the essential question.” Each team then shares a statement answering “the essential question” of the unit.

Assessment: Grade projects. Teacher: what next? The changing of role of government as America goes to war.