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Launch
Students will enter the investigation through a rapid artifact-based launch, begin analyzing how literary and historical sources can reveal fear, leadership, and responsibility, and produce an initial research question plus evidence plan that sets up later archival work and exhibit design.
Days 1 - 3
🕯️ Witness Walk Questions
Launch 40m
📖 Fever 1793 Scene Analysis
Knowledge/Skill Building 40m
🗂️ Research Question Pitch
Deliverable 40m
Witness Walk Launch
Students will generate investigable questions from artifact-based observations, practice close interpretation of literary and archival sources, refine a hypothesis about protection during crisis, and produce a step-by-step evidence-collection plan for upcoming research with newspapers, maps, and diaries.
Days 4 - 9
🖼️ Witness Walk Artifacts
Launch 40m
📖 Fever 1793 Scene Analysis
Knowledge/Skill Building 40m
🗞️ Source Reliability Sorting
Knowledge/Skill Building 40m
❓ Investigation Question Tuning
Deliverable 40m
🧭 Evidence Plan Workshop
Project Work 40m
✅ Research Plan Conference
Assessment 40m
Research Evidence Plan
Students will conduct structured archival research, test and refine a shared evidence-tagging system, evaluate source reliability, and build a traceable set of annotated notes, excerpts, and image captures that can support later claims about fear, leadership, responsibility, and community protection.
Days 10 - 15
🗂️ Source Notes and Citation Moves
Knowledge/Skill Building 35m
🏷️ Codebook for Fear and Care
Knowledge/Skill Building 40m
📚 Archive Search with Library Staff
Community Experience 40m
🔎 Annotated Evidence Capture
Research 45m
💬 Reliability Notes Peer Round
Deliverable 40m
✅ Evidence Record Checkpoint
Assessment 40m
Build Evidence Records
Students will strengthen and verify their evidence base by checking corroboration across Fever 1793 and archival sources, adding organized entries to a shared class record, and drafting exhibit components that show who protected the community and how fear, leadership, and responsibility shaped survival.
Days 16 - 21
🧭 Corroboration Check With Fever 1793
Knowledge/Skill Building 40m
🗂️ Shared Archive Record Build
Project Work 40m
🗺️ Mapping Who Stepped Up
Knowledge/Skill Building 40m
🖼️ Witness Poster Draft Studio
Deliverable 40m
💬 Gallery Critique Of Drafts
Knowledge/Skill Building 40m
✅ Midpoint Evidence Gate
Assessment 40m
Analyze And Showcase
Students will analyze patterns and anomalies across their novel and archival evidence, test competing interpretations through discussion and critique, revise their thesis and exhibit components, and prepare clear, evidence-based explanations for the Yellow Fever Witness Fair.
Days 22 - 27
📊 Evidence Pattern Maps
Knowledge/Skill Building 40m
📖 Fever 1793 Thesis Links
Knowledge/Skill Building 40m
🗣️ Interpretation Debate Circle
Knowledge/Skill Building 40m
🖼️ Witness Display Critique
Deliverable 40m
🎙️ Fair Talkthrough Rehearsal
Project Work 40m
🏛️ Yellow Fever Witness Fair
Assessment 40m
Showcase
Students will present their completed Yellow Fever Witness Fair museum exhibits to an authentic audience, respond to questions with evidence from Fever 1793 and archival sources, and reflect on how their thinking about crisis, leadership, responsibility, and community protection changed across the investigation.
Days 28 - 30
🛠️ Exhibit Cue Card Polish
Deliverable 30m
🖼️ Yellow Fever Witness Fair
Community Experience 50m
🎤 Gallery Walk Defense
Assessment 40m