Interdisciplinary Research Paper

Inter = Between
Disciplinary = Category of learning

Develop research and writing that explores significant issues in America

Research Topic

What is the American Dream?

What allows an individual to attain the American Dream?

How have we demonstrated our core values as Americans?

How has music, poetry, prose, or journalism been used to influence political an/or societal ideas and values?

What are the aspects of a defining societal issue, and how does it reshape the course of history?

The Point

If you are going to be active citizens of your communities who want to see change, then you must think and write about issues that concern you

Now that we have brainstormed American issues

• What concerns you? What does it mean to be concerned?
• Think about things going on in the world RIGHT NOW
• Make a list of issues that concern you

Was it hard to think of concerns or did it come easily?

Review your list

• Choose 1 issue that you think is most important
• Rewrite that question under your list
• Ask as many questions as you can in 5 minutes about this topic

Asking Questions

Forced exile of Native American Indians onto Reservations

Contemporary Native American issue (Redskins as a team name, etc)

Slavery/The Underground Railroad

The Ku Klux Klan

Child labor laws

Prohibition in the 1920s

The Great Depression

Desegregation of Public Schools

Rosa Parks

Martin Luther King Junior

Stonewall/The Gay Rights Movement

Woodstock/Counter Culture

The Banning of Books/Literature in schools

Any contemporary American Issue Today

Homework

• Research 1 news article on topic
• Provide citation for article

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High-Level Thinking Questions

• What caused...?
• In what sequence did ____ happen?
• What are different points of view on...?
• How is ____ like ____?
• How are ____ and ____ different?
• What would happen if...?
• What is the lesson learned from...?
• What are different points of view on...?