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.
Students begin with a lesson on Internet and library use for research purposes.
The librarian has developed a one-hour lesson on how to use the resources of the library. Students have the remainder of the block day to begin research. My students are in an Advanced Placement European history class and spend a significant portion of the course reading and interpreting primary source documents in European history. Students will ask the same questions of the information and the sources that will be used in their research paper. Students will only examine the possible impact of future agricultural supports for candidate nations on current EU members.