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2.2 Interpret information from a variety of primary and secondary sources including electronic media.
 * **Content Standard** || **Expected Performance** || **Library-Based Authentic Task** ||
 * **Social Studies:**

2.2.2 Compare information about the same event using a variety of primary sources.

CC.8.R.I.9 Analyze a case in which two or more texts provide conflicting information on the same topic and identify where the texts disagree on matters of facts or interpretations. CC.8.W.7 Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and generating additional related focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration. || **The settlers' perspective:**
 * Language Arts:**

Investigate the colonists' decisions behind expanding west, how they went about acquiring the land, and the effect the expansion had on the native people.

B3: Use stated or implied evidence from the text to draw and/or support a conclusion. || Keep a settler's journal. Put yourself in the place of a settler heading west. Each day, using information you have gained from research, write an entry in your settler's journal. From the point of view of the settler, describing your experiences and the experiences of those around you.
 * CMT Correlation:**

Please See: Rubrics Please See: General Resources Please See: Zone 1 Materials

Media Specialist will instruct students in using print and electronic resources. Also MS will instruct students on finding, evaluating, and citing primary and secondary sources. || 1.13 Understand the characteristics of and interactions among culture, social systems and institutions 1.13.26 Compare similarities and differences of ethnic and cultural groups in the United states and their impact on American social systems.
 * **Social Studies:**

CC.8.R.I.3 Analyze how a text makes connects among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events. || **The Native Americans' perspective:**
 * Language Arts:**

Investigate the native Americans' reactions to the expansion and taking of land.

C1: Make connections between the text and outside experiences and knowledge. C2: Select, synthesize and/or use relevant information within the text to write a personal response to the text. || Create a series of pictographs illustrating the thoughts and feelings of the various native American tribes.
 * CMT Correlation:**

Picture yourself a member of the various Native American tribes. As you research and learn about each tribe create a series of pictographs from the point of view of a tribe member. The Pictographs should illustrate the thoughts and feelings of that particular tribe. Use the information gathered to accurately illustrate the thoughts and feelings of the different tribes. Create a new series for each of the tribal areas.

Please See: Rubrics Please See: General Resources Please See: Zone 2 Materials

Media Specialist will instruct students in using print and electronic resources. Also MS will instruct students on finding, evaluating, and citing primary and secondary sources. || 3.1 Use evidence to identify, analyze, and evaluate historical interpretations. 3.1.1 Compare and contrast two or more interpretations of a historical event. 3.1.2 Cite evidence to support and/or critique a historian's interpretation of an event.
 * **Social Studies:**

CC.8.W.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content. CC.8.W.2.b Develop the topic with relevant, well-chosen details, quotations, or other information and examples CC.8.W.1 Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence. || **Students' perspective:**
 * Language Arts:**

Evaluate the gathered information and evidence.

Apply gathered knowledge and evidence in order to support a position.

Use the information to write an informative, persuasive piece.

DAW: Direct Assessment of Writing (Persuasive) || Create an organized compare/contrast using the information gathered in the investigation.
 * CMT Correlation:**

Create a persuasive product, letter and PowerPoint (or PhotoStory), that will clearly illustrate your position as a member of the government board of experts.

Through your letter and PowerPoint (or PhotoStory) you will need to persuade your fellow board members whether or not the Native Americans deserve restitution for their lost lands and other past hardships brought on by Westward expansion.

Please See: Rubrics Please See: General Resources Please See: Zone 3 Materials ||