Language Arts Brief Description Students write up reports, including a summary of their research findings and their historical journal entries, to be shared with friends and families. Students should draw on the criteria developed during their initial explorations to guide the format of their reports.
Students publish their reports.
Synthesize their understandings of the concepts of immigration. Activity Description Students create rough draft of their reports. Students peer-edit each other's drafts prior to teacher editing. Students create final drafts, incorporating comments from their peer and teacher editing. Invite parents, community members, and other classrooms to come and share in a presentation of the students' work.