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Let’s Play Clue!

Let’s Play Clue!. Significance of Research and Evidence. Agenda/Business. 1. Business items Moving cars on the Road to Success Topics, thesis statements, citations 2. Clue game 3. Continue to work on our projects . Who has seen the movie CLUE?. Clue Objectives!.

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Let’s Play Clue!

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  1. Let’s Play Clue! Significance of Research and Evidence

  2. Agenda/Business • 1. Business items • Moving cars on the Road to Success • Topics, thesis statements, citations • 2. Clue game • 3. Continue to work on our projects

  3. Who has seen the movie CLUE?

  4. Clue Objectives! • SWBAT detect bias reliability in sources • SWBAT understand the significance of gathering multiple sources in order to get the whole story • SWBAT record sources properly • SWBAT identify the relevance (or lack of )in a source • SWBAT evaluate the significance of evidence • CLUE THE MOVIE!

  5. Let our game begin! • Role assignments! • Review role responsibilities • We need six volunteers: • Clue Searcher number 1 • Clue Searcher number 2 • Clue Searcher number 3 • Scribe Team 1 (whiteboard and marker) • Scribe Team 2 (whiteboard and marker)

  6. Clue Predictions With your teams (each side of the room will be a team!) please make a prediction of who has committed this crime! Choose one suspect, one weapon, and one location! Have the scribe record this prediction on a sheet of paper and hold on to it until the end of the game to see if you were right! • Suspects: • Ms. Davis • Ms. Lataille • Mr. Jones • Weapons: • Book • Spitball • Pencil • Locations: • Library • Cafeteria • Hallway

  7. Directions • As a class we are going to try to solve this Manchester mystery! • There are clues providing evidence from different sources around the room. • After we find each clue we will discuss the pros and cons of the evidence and sources it provides. • Clue searchers will retrieve the clues and read them aloud to the class. • Scribes will record the sources and evidence provided in each clue.

  8. Clue Number 1 • A rumor started by a student around Manchester High School this week is that Mr. Jones was seen suspiciously walking around the library last Wednesday with a pencil in his hand.

  9. Discuss • Source Reliability • Source biases

  10. Helpful Hint • To hear more about this mystery look towards to North Pole!

  11. Clue Number 2 • According to half of the Social Studies teachers at Manchester High School Ms. Lataille has never seen the cafeteria. • Clue Searcher 1 please read aloud!

  12. Discuss • Getting the whole story • Significance of getting multiple sources

  13. Helpful Hint • To hear more about this mystery what is opposite of black plus a rhyme with chord.

  14. Clue Number 3 • The English teachers at Manchester High School were working in the library last week doing a project on Shakespeare and there was a big problem with spitballs. • Clue searcher 2 please read this aloud!

  15. Discuss • Sorting through and picking out irrelevant sources and information

  16. Helpful Hint • To hear more about this mystery look to the teachers right, third row, second desk.

  17. Clue Number 4 • Mr. Jones was heard accusing both Ms. Lataille and Ms. Davis of sneaking around in the hallways with pencils and books. • Clue searcher 3 please read this aloud!

  18. Discuss • Why are proper citations, evidence, and sources significant? • How can we apply evidence to our topic or research question?

  19. Can you solve the Manchester Mystery? • To hear more about this mystery properly record each of the sources of these four clues in your teams and solve the mystery! • Use your scribes notes to review! • Then as a team record you choices for suspect, location, and weapon for this crime based on the evidence and sources! Let’s see which team will solve the mystery!

  20. “I don’t know!” • If you wrote down “I don’t know”, for the first time, your are exactly right! • Why is this impossible? • Our evidence was not reliable, it was not thorough enough, it was not recorded properly, or it was irrelevant!

  21. Discuss • What would we do now if we needed to solve this mystery? • What should you do with your project if your sources are not giving you the answer to your question? • Why is evidence, sources, and citations important to your research? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43886f2c06I

  22. Reflection • Please take a few minutes to fill out this worksheet about our Clue game! • Then we will discuss as a class.

  23. History Day Projects Announcements • Review handouts and research guides • Begins working on whatever you need to be for your project! • Topics • Thesis statements • Research • Organization

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