Sigafoos Kathleen Sigafoos Europe and Globalization 1. Students will use the topic of the future of the European Union as a focus to acquire research skills and develop writing skills that conform to the conventions of standard formal English and the discipline historical research and writing. Students will be asked to focus their topic on a problem relating to expansion of the European Union. Students will use instructor's model to guide their research. They will experience questions that they must ask of their own sources as they explore their own research question.
Students identify bias and prejudice in historical interpretations.
Procedure Day 1 -Trace the formation of the European Union and establish vocabulary and criteria for the presentation. The instructor introduces possible economic, social, and political problems that might result from expansion, and outlines a time line of key events in the formation of the Ell, from the Treaty of Rome to today. Students will choose a research topic of their own that relates to the proposed Ell expansion to include the current candidate nations. Distribute the guide for research, project timeline, and scoring rubric to students. Day 2 -Students research in the library with the librarian and the teacher.