Cooperative groups produce a multimedia presentation about an assigned mission. California Mission information is shared between classes. Revise selected drafts to improve coherence and progression by adding, deleting, combining and rearranging text. 1.2 Combine short, related sentences with appositives, participial phrases, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases. 1.6 Capitalize names of magazines, newspapers, works of art, musical compositions, organizations, and the first word in quotations when appropriate.
Students select or are assigned a mission to research.
Groups of three students work together to research the mission system and their particular mission. Each student group then develops a multimedia presentation. Finally, the students use the information from the research and presentations to participate in a role play Mock Talk Show about the California mission system. The teacher models how to use the web quest and the web sites. While students are researching and creating the multimedia presentations, the teacher closely monitors their work and offers assistance when necessary.