Learning Goals
Students will be able to analyze Fever 1793 to explain how setting, character, and conflict reveal fear, leadership, and responsibility during the yellow fever crisis.
Students will be able to interpret diary excerpts, newspaper headlines, maps, and images to determine what evidence shows about community protection during the yellow fever epidemic.
Students will be able to formulate an investigable question about who protected the community in crisis and what actions shaped survival during yellow fever.
Students will be able to evaluate the reliability and purpose of primary and secondary sources about the yellow fever epidemic by comparing perspective, context, and corroboration.
Students will be able to synthesize evidence from the novel and archival research to justify claims about leadership, responsibility, fear, and resilience in Philadelphia during the epidemic.
Students will be able to collaborate to design and revise a museum-style witness display that communicates historical findings with clarity, accuracy, and empathy.
Students will be able to reflect on how their understanding of crisis, resilience, and community responsibility changed across the investigation.
Products
Yellow Fever Investigation Notebook
A research notebook that documents each student’s question development, source notes, evidence selection, and personal analysis across the investigation. It must show how the student moved from initial observations to a defensible claim supported by textual and archival evidence.
Yellow Fever Witness Fair Museum Exhibit
A team-built museum exhibit featuring annotated posters, maps, excerpts, and short audio or spoken explanations that present shared findings about community protection during the epidemic. The exhibit must depend on each member’s evidence and include attention to conflicting findings, anomalies, and limitations.
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