HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY

1) CHOOSE YOUR CHARACTER: Students create a Twitter Profile for a character from history (specific or a category, i.e. King's daughters, Fur Trader, King of England, English Soldier, Mother Earth, Huron woman, etc.) Students identify their character's values, likes, dislikes, etc.

TWITTER : HISTORICAL TWITTER HISTORIQUE

2) GATHER HISTORICAL FACTS: use the sujet du jour slides to assign 1 topic at a time. Students work together, or as a whole class, to learn about the events with a variety of links.

7 - SUJETS DU JOUR 8 - SUJETS DU JOUR (ONLY AVAILABLE IN FRENCH - use your own resources or textbooks)

3) ANALYZE THE DATA: For each topic, students use the Ladder of Inference to make a conclusion from their character's perspective.

Ladder of Inference (English) Échelle d'inférence (français)

4) TWEET! : For each topic, students write a Tweet about the topic, including a hashtag, and picture.

STUDENT EXAMPLES:

GRADE 8 STUDENT EXAMPLE GRADE 7 STUDENT EXAMPLE