This three-step modeling should detail and demonstrate the research agenda and the possible presentation styles. There is no evaluation at this time, although the teacher may want to assign a biography. And Presentation Overview Students will research their topics. They may do so in the classroom, with reference materials provided by the teacher or that they have brought in, or they may be taken as a group to the media center where they can research and take notes for the class period. Procedures Student groups research the assigned immigrant group.
Teacher rotates providing assistance, support, and supervision of and for the group task.
Teams will get together, discuss their findings, organize their findings into a loose format, and then begin putting their documentary presentations together. The documentaries can be handled in several ways. Video presentations created by the team Plays or live presentations before the class. All of the above. The teams will then present their documentaries to the class on a schedule based on class decision making or chronological immigrating to the U.S. by groups assigned.