Wednesday, February 2, 2011

February 3

We'll finish reading "American History", then we'll go to the lab so you can do some research on the assassination of JFK.

The game I'm going to ask you to play I call "Station to Station". The idea behind it is to take one piece of information and follow it where it leads. In theory every person will end up in a different place even though each person began the journey in the same place.
I have provided you with a start point.
http://www.jfk-assassination.com/articles/index.php

Now read over the start point. Find something that interests you. It might be a name of a city or a food or a question (why did Oswald kill him?) Using Google Search or Google Images or some such, investigate this topic. On a new Google Docs document write a brief summary of what you learned. One stipulation. Try to keep the topics concerned with our main theme: the Kennedy Assassination.
Now you have at least one new website to read. Within that website fine another topic or question to investigate. On that same Google Docs document tell me a bit about what you learned.
Now try the same process again. As you go to one website use that to search for the next topic.
Do this four times so that you have four summaries. Include pictures where that will help your explanation. Assume you are teaching a sixth grader with this exercise so don't make your explanations too complicated.
Name your document LastNameKENNEDY.
This will be due tomorrow, Friday, at the end of the period.

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