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Plan
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Launch
Students will launch the civil disobedience inquiry by analyzing competing historical frames, identifying bias and omission, learning a shared source-analysis routine, and producing an initial evidence-based claim that sets up later research and argument writing.
Days 1 - 6
🖼️ Civil Disobedience Sorting Walk
Launch 50m
📚 Textbook vs Zinn Source Lens
Knowledge/Skill Building 50m
📝 Foundations Annotation Bootcamp
Knowledge/Skill Building 50m
🧭 Patterns Across Resistance Timeline
Project Work 50m
💬 Claim and Warrant Peer Round
Deliverable 50m
✅ Source Analysis Entry Checkpoint
Assessment 50m
Take A Position
Students will test an initial stance on whether civil disobedience is morally justified by analyzing competing claims, tracing bias and perspective across cases, and drafting a one-page position supported by early evidence, warrants, and source leads they will investigate in later phases.
Days 7 - 16
⚖️ Four Corners Civil Disobedience
Launch 50m
🧭 Bias Moves in Zinn and Textbook
Knowledge/Skill Building 50m
📝 CER and Warrants Mini-Workshop
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
📚 Case Set Source Sprint
Research 50m
🗺️ Continuity and Change Timeline Cards
Project Work 50m
🎙️ Seminar on Justified Resistance
Project Work 50m
📄 One-Page Position Draft
Deliverable 50m
🔍 Feedback Round on Position Drafts
Deliverable 50m
🛠️ Revision Lab and Source Leads
Project Work 45m
✅ Position Memo Checkpoint
Assessment 50m
Research And Sort
Students will gather and evaluate a balanced set of primary and secondary sources, identify bias and omissions across accounts of civil disobedience, and organize evidence into supports, partly supports, and challenges so they can carry stronger claims and counterclaims into the next phase of argument building.
Days 17 - 26
🧭 Source Credibility Moves
Knowledge/Skill Building 50m
📚 Foundational Documents Close Read
Knowledge/Skill Building 50m
🗂️ Research Log Setup
Knowledge/Skill Building 40m
🔎 Balanced Source Hunt
Research 100m
⚖️ Perspective Sorting Board
Project Work 50m
🧩 Counterevidence Conference
Project Work 50m
📝 Annotated Evidence Packet
Deliverable 60m
🤝 Evidence Packet Peer Critique
Project Work 50m
🚪 Research Gate Check
Assessment 50m
Build Argument Map
Students will turn their collected evidence into a defensible historical argument by organizing claims and sub-claims, selecting the strongest supporting and challenging sources, writing clear warrants, and planning fair counterarguments and rebuttals. They will test their reasoning through structured discussion, peer critique, revision, and a phase-end argument map checkpoint that prepares them for full draft writing.
Days 27 - 36
🧭 Essay Claim Ladder
Knowledge/Skill Building 50m
🧩 Source Credibility Sort
Knowledge/Skill Building 50m
🛠️ Warrant Writing Mini-Lab
Knowledge/Skill Building 50m
🗺️ Civil Disobedience Argument Map
Project Work 100m
⚖️ Counterclaim Rebuttal Workshop
Knowledge/Skill Building 50m
🔍 Two-Peer Logic Tuning
Deliverable 50m
📚 Across-Eras Pattern Notes
Research 50m
📝 Argument Blueprint Packet
Deliverable 50m
✅ Argument Map Checkpoint
Assessment 50m
Revise With Peers
Students will strengthen their historical argument essays through targeted mini-lessons, structured peer critique, revision cycles, and a polished draft checkpoint. They will improve warrants, source use, bias analysis, and counterargument quality while preparing to defend their position with clearer evidence and reasoning.
Days 37 - 45
🧭 Warrant Repair Mini-Lesson
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
🔎 Citation and Credibility Tune-Up
Knowledge/Skill Building 50m
🗣️ Peer Critique on Essay Logic
Project Work 50m
✍️ Revision Sprint for Counterevidence
Project Work 50m
⚖️ Perspective and Bias Check
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
🔁 Second Peer Round on Polished Draft
Deliverable 50m
🧱 Comparative Pattern Bridge
Project Work 45m
📄 Polished Draft Submission
Assessment 60m
🎤 Defense Notes and Objection Cards
Deliverable 45m
Defend Public Position
Students will refine and defend their historical argument in a live public-defense format by rehearsing responses to counterarguments, strengthening warrants with evidence, presenting to an audience, and reflecting on how evidence and critique complicated or sharpened their position on civil disobedience.
Days 46 - 54
🎤 Defense Moves With Evidence Cards
Knowledge/Skill Building 50m
🧭 Perspective Traps And Bias Responses
Knowledge/Skill Building 50m
🗂️ Comparative Defense Board Build
Project Work 50m
🔁 Two-Peer Defense Clinic
Deliverable 50m
📝 Question Bank And Rebuttal Log
Research 50m
🎙️ Mock Panel Under Cross-Examination
Project Work 50m
🛠️ Revision Sprint For Oral Defense
Deliverable 50m
🏛️ Symposium Roundtable Defense
Community Experience 50m
✍️ Nuance Reflection After Defense
Assessment 50m
Showcase
Students will finalize and publicly present their strongest evidence-based argument about civil disobedience, use source analysis and perspective notes to defend their claims before an authentic audience, respond to counterarguments with evidence and fair concessions, and reflect on how bias and multiple perspectives shaped their final understanding.
Days 55 - 60
🧭 Symposium Board Final Check
Launch 45m
🗣️ Two-Peer Defense Tune-Up
Project Work 50m
🖼️ Civil Disobedience Symposium Setup
Deliverable 35m
🎤 Public Panel Defense
Community Experience 50m
📚 Final Argument Portfolio
Assessment 50m
🔍 Perspective Shift Reflection
Assessment 45m