Students in 8th grade are practicing "accountable talk" strategies (see picture below). Today those discussion skills were used to examine the causes of the American Revolution. Small groups worked together to make a "Last Straw" clothesline (see picture below) of the events that lead to the revolution. Small and large groups debated and discussed which of the events had the most important impact, and which might have been the "last straw."
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Students worked as a class to build norms for accountable talk
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