2.+Planning+&+Preparation

2. Planning and Preparation


 * Planning **
 * 1) **Knowledge gaining**: Students will gain knowledge of the Civil War and how specific women played a part in it. First, students will watch a short video introducing all the different roles that women played in the Civil War. Next, students will read about how the project will work and what will be expected of them. It is in this stage that the students will be divided into groups and given the name of the Notable Woman from the Civil War that they will be researching. Students will then begin researching their Notable Woman as a group on the Web, gathering information from several websites including one that is provided for them, in order to answer the provided research topics.
 * 2) **Knowledge organizing:** Students will work in groups to organize their information. As each student gathers his/her information, s/he will post it on his/her group's Google Doc page, which will help each group communicate effectively and keep their information organized. Each group will then format their information in a way that they feel will be most helpful when presenting it to their classmates. Then, each group will use their research to create a script about their Notable Woman from the Civil War.
 * 3) **Knowledge sharing:** Students will share their work in the form of a homemade movie. Each group will have created a script that shares important information about their Notable Woman and will then act out how that woman participated in the Civil War. The movie will be roughly 5 minutes long. After it has been filmed, the students will share their movies with the rest of the class, this way every group has the opportunity to learn about every way women participated in the Civil War. Each group will also create a handout for the rest of the class to will out while watching the movie, outlining the main points concerning their Notable Woman and how she participated in the Civil War. These handouts will be posted on the class wiki so that each student may access and respond to them.


 * Preparation **
 * 1) Teacher will have already taught a lesson on how to find scholarly websites on the Internet.
 * 2) Teacher will have created a class wiki on which the students can post their handouts for the rest of the class.
 * 3) Teacher will have created an informational document, for the students, showing them what the next two weeks will look like. This is to ensure that students will come to class ready to begin the day's work since they will know what to expect.
 * 4) Teacher will have created a Google Doc for each group which contains research questions for each group to answer. Each Google Doc will contain the same generic questions for every group to answer. It is the group's job to personalize it to their own Notable Woman.
 * 5) Teacher will found one article about each group's Notable Woman and will have to post them on each group's Google Doc page. This research help will act as both a jump-start for each group on their research and as a model showing each group what types of articles they should be looking for when researching their Notable Woman themselves.