Town Meeting Students understand, analyze, evaluate, and respond effectively to oral presentations. Students listen to presentations attempting to identify the speaker's purpose, identify the key ideas and supporting details, distinguish fact from opinion, and draw their own conclusions. During discussions, students ask key questions for clarification, exchange ideas and opinions, summarize and paraphrase key presentation points while using language and behaviors that are appropriate and respectful. Technology Students employ effective research and study skills. Students gather information in writing, in person, by telephone, from encyclopedias, fiction and non-fiction resources, and primary documents, while keeping a notebook to organize and collect the data using one's knowledge of table of contents, index, alphabetical order.
Students organize information in categories.
Read colonial resources. Research the mob actions leading to the Revolutionary War. Research the battles of the Revolutionary War. Identifies the intended messages from illustrations, dramatic presentations, advertisements. Creates a criteria for evaluation of the presented materials.