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Materials for Summit Teachers

This section contains everything you need to facilitate your participation in the 2005 summit. All of the following links are to .pdfs; you may need to download Adobe's free Acrobat Reader in order to access them.


Administration and Software

• Orientation Guide
• Teacher Orientation Activities Guide
• Guide to Conferencing in WebBoard
• Student Handbook
• Research Topic Area Assignments (by class)
• Student Research Topics

Summit Activities and Forms

• Guide to Student Activities
• Student Activities Form Chart
• Student Activities Timeline
• Pre Test
• Pre Test Results: Online Submission Form (Submission date has passed)
• Post Test
• Post Test Results: Online Submission Form (Submission date has passed)
• Questions for Experts: Online Submission Form (Submission date has passed)
• The American Jury: What Do You Know, What Do You Want to Know?
• Posting Rubric
• Threaded Discussion Example
• Activity 4: Fact v. Opinion Checklist
• Activity 5: Each One Teach One Facts
• Activity 6: Civil Discussion Checklist
• Activity 6: What is Online Civil Discussion? Discussion Starters
• Activity 6: Examples of Writing in Response to Discussion Starter
• Activity 7: Anticipation Guide
• Activity 7: Terms and Vocabulary
• Activity 7: Context: "A Jury of Her Peers"
• Activity 7: A Study of the Murder Case of Margaret Hossack
• Activity 7: About Trifles
• Activity 7: Reading and Writing about "A Jury of Her Peers"
• Activity 9: Holding Civil Discussions Online about "A Jury of Her Peers"
• Student Reading Log
• Activity 10: Expert Question & Answer Reading Log
• Activity 11: Examples of Student Research
• Activity 11: Original Student Research Checklist
• Student Research Reading Log
• Activity 14: Instructions for Self-Assessment Paragraphs