There are sites put together by realtors, sites dealing with local businesses and corporations, sites that tell about the latest cultural events. Several of the groups have contacted students in their respective cities via e-mail. They are anxiously awaiting responses. They all continue to record their progress on their update sheets regularly. The teachers' goal is to have the students realize the importance of looking back at the guidelines for the presentation to keep their audience and purpose in mind.
Students return to their city committees and begin the data evaluation process.
The students are eager to begin work on their presentations, but have some questions about how to make them convincing. In response, the teachers present a mini-lesson from their district curriculum on the elements of persuasive discourse. They want to be certain that the students understand that this is a learning goal of the simulation. At the end of the mini-lesson, the teachers pass out the rubric that will be used to evaluate the effectiveness of the presentations. The teachers have provided very little structure as to how these proposals should be presented.