Ask students to use web resources to construct a geneology for their family groups. Locate websites relating to Ellis and Angel Islands. Work may not be written out or may appear in simple formats such as lists or outlines. Student does not use details and needs support to write and edit. Apprentice Student has a simple writing style with a minimal organizational pattern.
Student uses abundant detail and appropriate vocabulary.
Style and tone are evident and add greatly to the writing. Author Paula Bellerose and Mary Goodale respectively teach Language Arts and Social Studies at Middlebury Union Middle School in Middlebury, Vermont. They created this unit together and have used it in their classrooms as well as in a number of workshops. The unit was accepted by the Vermont State Department as a juried standards based unit in 1998.