Introduction

Congratulations, you and your team have been hired to do historical research. Just like professional historians you will present your findings to important members of our community—your parents, teachers, and other staff members, and finally to the world through this website.

Your mission is to investigate artifacts related to the Civil Rights Movement, Freedom Summer and Freedom schools. Your goals are to create pages in a website and an oral presentation that

As historians you must decide how to present your findings. Your most important task is to meet the mission and all of your goals. Your presentation should include visuals, written descriptions and spoken components. Your presentation should be professional, informative, and engaging. Every historian in the group should be able to answer audience questions.
 * Demonstrate your ability to write persuasive texts
 * Demonstrates your ability to write informative texts
 * Demonstrate your ability to use research and cite sources
 * Demonstrate your ability to revise and write for specific audiences
 * Demonstrate your knowledge of your assigned topic
 * Determine whether or not the participants are representative of what it means to be an advocate and how this connects to our goals at the Baltimore Freedom Academy
 * In addition, each person should share the 2 most important things they learned over the summer.

Source: www.lva.virginia.gov/ public/archivesmonth/200...