Teacher Notes

This WebQuest is designed for 9-12 grades Language Arts and Social Science, but the strategy can also be applied to lower grades. It can be done individually or with partners. Three simple questions can draw meaning from any array of subject matter.  It helps student to analyze and understand various genre.

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California Content Standards Addressed*
Ninth & Tenth Grade: Language Arts
  Reading
    2.5 Extend ideas presented in primary or secondary sources through original analysis, evaluation, and elaboration.
    2.8 Evaluate the credibility of an author's argument or defense of a claim by critiquing the relationship between generalizations and evidence, the comprehensiveness of evidence, and the way in which the author's intent affects the structure and tone of the text (e.g., in professional journals, editorials, political speeches, primary source material).
Eleventh & Twelfth Grade: Language Arts
  Reading
    2.4. Make warranted and reasonable assertions about the author's arguments by using elements of the text to defend and clarify interpretations.
    2.5 Analyze an author's implicit and explicit philosophical assumptions and beliefs about a subject.
Social Studies
  • Students analyze the aspirations and ideals of the people of the new nation.
  • Students show the connections, causal and otherwise, between particular historical events and larger social, economic and political trends and developments.

National Education Technology Standards for Students