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 * Our Ideas**

History lesson, set the hypothesis, the children will test the hypothesis that FDR was a democratic dictator: 1. Webquest: definition of democratic and dictator 2. Use digital images to contrast images of real dictators with FDR 3. Legislation/attempted legislation: packing the supreme court, compare legislation (bring in modern dictators) 4. Links to speeches and compare FDR's fire side chat to a speech by Hitler

Assessment would be to support or refute the hypothesis: a five paragraph essay (grading rubric that looks at content rather than writing ability)

Content: Writing, Technology: digital storytelling and word processing, Pedagogy: modeling, providing cues questions and advance organizers, cooperative learning Teacher models pre-writing and planning Kids work in small groups to get discussion going Make sure they are able to utilize the various strategies before they start the digital storytelling

Content: Vocabulary, Pedagogy: Nonlinguistic representations, Technology: Digital Camera

Content: Social Studies/Civics/Current Events, Pedagogy: Summarizing and Notetaking, Technology: bookmarking and blogging Teacher would model In class teacher would model search and how to choose one article (reliability), post to bookmarking site, blog about it using summarizing and bookmarking, reinforcing and providing recognition (post a reaction to others) Assessment: how you did it