Friday 02/09 Writing - Ask Questions and Find Your Own Answers

Purpose: As a historian, I can ask questions and then find my own answers to those questions.

1. Connection:  Rely on your data and insights
2. Teaching: When you are researching, you need to not just move facts from someone else's book to your page.  You also need to think, to come up with your own ideas.  One of the best ways to do this is to ask questions and then to find your own answers to those questions, even if your answers are tentative at first:
• Maybe it's because...
• I think it is because...
• I wonder if perhaps...
3. Practice: Battles of Lexington and Concord Text and Map
4. Application: American Revolution Report
• Record new information using our research resources.
• Grow your thinking by thinking about the information.
• Continue to highlight how the geography of the place impacted how the events unfolded.