The student demonstrates an understanding of the rules of the English language. The student analyzes and revises written work. The student participates in group meetings. This lesson is developed as a unit project and takes approximately 4-5 weeks to implement. It is originally designed to have students from one class work in small cooperative groups to gather information about one state in the New State Region.
Students gather information about their particular state.
Once students have gathered their information about their state, together they will design their brochure. Students are to write a descriptive essay which will include important information about their New England State. The classes then work together to compare and contrast the information. Each team will have successfully created a brochure that will be shared with other Social Studies classes. The team will now be able to retire for a short time until we move on to our next region.