Learning Goals
Students will be able to formulate self-generated investigation questions about propaganda, the 2024 midterm election messaging, The Crucible, and the American buffalo in order to study how people decide what is true.
Students will be able to trace and evaluate sources for election claims, historical quotations, and buffalo-related texts in order to distinguish fact, opinion, reasoned judgment, and speculation.
Students will be able to analyze rhetoric, diction, and perspective in The Crucible, current political messaging, and buffalo history in order to explain how language shapes public belief and action.
Students will be able to collect and organize evidence in an investigation notebook with source notes, claim charts, and data logs in order to document how their thinking changes over time.
Students will be able to compare two arguments about the same event or issue in order to identify similar and different evidence, interpretations, and possible bias.
Students will be able to justify an evidence-based claim about who or what can be trusted by citing credible sources and acknowledging limitations in the evidence.
Products
Individual Investigation Notebook and Claim Analysis Portfolio
Each student will maintain a research notebook that includes question refinement, source-tracing logs, evidence tables, quick data or source notes, and personal analysis across the three case studies. The notebook shows how the student tested claims, revised thinking, and developed an individual evidence-based conclusion.
Public Truth-Testing Investigation Report and Exhibition Presentation
Teams will synthesize individual evidence into a formal report and presentation that compare findings across propaganda, The Crucible, and buffalo history. The product must explain methodology, show visuals or charts, address conflicting or weak evidence, and present a defensible conclusion with next questions.
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