EXPLORATION, ENCOUNTER, EXCHANGE IN HISTORY
Procedure:
Day 1 Procedure
• Students start in their home groups, where instructions for the activity take place.
• Explain the purpose of the lesson
• Explain that students will move from the home group to an expert group to analyze their particular document, and
then move back to their home group to share their learning and learn from other students within that group.
• If students need context, this is the time to use the American Imperialism Context PowerPoint.
• Students move to expert groups to begin their document analysis. Each expert group is built around one document.
• In expert groups students analyze their document, filling out the graphic organizer either by hand or digitally, and then
return to the home group.
“School Begins,” Louis Darylmple, January 25, 1899
Library of Congress
www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2012647459/
Day 2 Procedure
• Each student shares his or her expert group learning with the home group by summarizing what they learned about the
primary source document. This may be accomplished through the use of butcher paper or by means of a Google Doc or
Ethernet Pad, one per home group.
• In home groups students prepare for the Harkness discussion by talking about evidence in the documents that they can use.
• The second day is dedicated to the Harkness discussion (alternative noted below), which the teacher starts with the prompt,
“What are the arguments for territorial expansion, and opposing expansion?”
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