Give guidance and feedback to students' plans, encouraging, refining, and helping them to be responsible for their own learning. Maintain high expectations for completion of chosen options. Summarize by reviewing the whole, bringing students "full circle" to the experience with which the learning began.
Refine projects/plan forum on Antebellum Slavery.
Objective: To edit and revise projects.
Activity: 1) Teachers and students develop a planning/evaluation checklist tailored to this unit of study. 2) Teachers and students collaboratively evaluate, edit and revise projects as needed. 3) Teachers and students collaboratively plan the format and logistics of a public forum that would showcase their learnings. Planning and logistical tasks are divided among small groups and individuals. The teacher interacts to facilitate and support student initiatives as needed.
Assessment: Quality of student projects and public forum planning.