Q3: How do Sources Illustrate a Person's Impact on Their Community?

The third supporting question—… How do sources illustrate a person's impact on their community? Provide students an opportunity to synthesizing information gained from sources to make a claim about a person's impact and growth of their community and provide evidence to support from the sources they analyzed.

Teachers may implement this task with the following procedures…

Students will be tasked with First students will complete the task  “Puzzle Pieces that Connect”  to narrow down their focus to 2 people they learned about. 

•  Students will pick 2 people they learned about and list 3-5 things that connect these people to Detroit and/or Michigan. 

•  Students will describe at least 2 ways these people had an impact on or contributed to the growth of the Metro Detroit Michigan area. 

Then they will take their puzzle piece and use it to provide a written claim about 1 person's local impact on their community supported by evidence from the sources they analyzed.