Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Historical Investigation, Day 7 - Class Recap


Steps leading to the place where Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in Delhi, India. Gandhi famously led a revolution in India against the British government, using non-violence as a core principle. Photo taken during Spring Break, 2015!

Hi everyone,

Today was our last day of in class Computer Lab time for the Historical Investigation. Next class, the rough draft is due to be peer reviewed! Here's what we did today in class:

Learning Targets: 
Knowledge LT 20: I can explain the impacts of nationalism and revolutionary movements.
Communication LT 3: I can effectively use the conventions of writing.
Research LT 1: I can develop and refine a research question or topic.
Research LT 3: I can responsibly and accurately cite sources.
Critical Thinking LT 2: I can explain connections between events, issues, problems and concepts.

Soundtrack: "This Time is the Last Time" by Mae. Selected for today because it was the last time we went to the computer lab together as a class to work on the Historical Investigation! Lyrics here.

AGENDA 4/7/15:
Wildcat News Brief - Shaggy
Rough Draft Expectations
Final Questions?
Computer Lab S219

Homework: Read the blog! Printed copy of Historical Investigation rough draft due next class. Next news brief: .
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Wildcat News Brief: The return of Wildcat News to YouTube, so that I can link to it on the blog! Hooray! Here was today's edition:


Shaggy had the news brief today and selected this article about this story to talk about: BBC.com - Greece Nazi occupation: Athens asks Germany for €279bn. Super interesting as a result of World War II, that Greece would want Germany to pay them back for all the past damage done to their country. History is so fascinating!

We also watched VICE News for the day (which included Russia wanting to say Stalin was a great leader again - wow!), before moving on.

The next news brief was assigned to Broden.

Rough Draft Expectations: Here's the copy of how you will be peer reviewing the Historical Investigation next class, which is so important to being able to turn in a good research paper:


Please be sure to bring in a printed copy at the start of class (I do not want a ton of students needing to print their papers out) so that we can peer review and I can have a look at it as well. I will call students up one by one in class so we can look at it together and I can go over any last changes that I am requesting. Make sure that you look to correct spelling and grammar, as well!

Final Questions? Here is the final assignment, again, if you need to look at it:


And here is an example of a historical investigation done by another student, which might help with formatting. The OPVL/Part C is different in this student paper, so ignore that aspect.

Computer Lab S219: The rest of class was devoted to working in the Computer Lab on the assignment, and I was happy to try and answer questions, as well as help as much as I could. Please let me know if there is anything else I can do!

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