Fifth Grade AIM Update
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Welcome to 2018!
Today we were off and running with the Civil War! We started the day with a PBL on slavery (I know, I know, not exactly a cheery topic but they were very interested...) The PBL started with the following scenario: Your candidate has asked for extensive research on the issue of slavery. You strongly believe that slavery should be abolished in America. You must write a persuasive speech explaining to him why he must support the ending of slavery. Be sure to explain to him why others think they need slavery. I provided them with some resources and they jumped right in to researching! We will begin writing our speeches next week. We also took some time to take notes on the election of 1860 and its aftermath. We will begin exploring the battles next week. For the last hour of the day we continued working on our World Culture Day games, I am so excited to give them this leadership position on such a big event (this year WCD is on Feb. 16th)