Name: Cranor, Els

E-mail: cranore@hotmail.com

Topic: THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE  (using the A - B - C -poster from Arkansas

Grade: 8th

Time: 3-4 class periods total. Part of the assignment can be done as Homework

Ark. Hist. Framework: 1.1.1 - 1.1.2 - 1.1.4 - 2.1.2 - 2.1.4 - 3.1.1 - 3.1.5. - 3.1.6 - 3.1.7 -4.1.1 - 4.1.6 - 4.1.7 - 5.1.1 - 5.1.2 - 5.1.3 - 5.1.4 - 5.1.5 - 5.1.6 - 6.1.3 - 6.1.6.

Objective: The students will be able to recognize and interpret people and events associated with the Louisiana Purchase.

Set: Students will have studied pages 59 - 61 from their text book. They will also have seen the Louisiana Purchased video donated by the Department of Arkansas Heritage.

Materials: : Each student will have a Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Poster.

                  About 30 blank sheets of paper (per student)

                  Scissors and glue

                  Text-book : "An Arkansas History for young people" by T. Harri Baker and

                                        Jane Browning.

Key Terms: the 26 A - B - C - words from the poster.

Key Facts: The 26 people and events from the poster

Activities: 1. Quick review of the facts of the Louisiana Poster (from text)

                  2. Students will make booklets, by cutting the 26 items of the poster and

                      gluing each on a separate sheet of paper.

                  3. The title of the poster will be cut apart and used to make the title of the

                      booklet. This should take no more than 2 class periods.

                  4. Each student will then be given a "letter" to do further research on

                      and write a short report on.

                  5. After about a week the students will report back and give a one or

                      two sentence addition to the text on the paper of the letter that this

                      student was assigned.

                  6. The teacher will write these sentences on the Overhead projector so
all students can copy these additions on their papers including the name off

                     the student who did the research.

Closure: The students will have their own original booklet, the result of a class-activity

Assessment: The students will take a  teacher made quiz/test on the 26 items of the

                       Poster, with different levels of difficulty: with answers (for your resource

                       Students, without answers (for your regular students) and without their

                       Booklets all together ( for your G - T classes). The reports which the

                       Students did on their separate "letters" can also be used as an assessment

                       Tool.

N.B. If possible, a fieldtrip to the "Initial Point" of origin for the Louisiana Purchase

         Near Clarendon, Arkansas would be a great culminating activity for the study of

         This part of Arkansas History.

Resources: Each student will have access to different encyclopedias and/or  the Internet

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