For the past two weeks, my class has been working on their Roanoke persuasive writing after reading Roanoke, An Unsolved Mystery from History.
The good news is that it does seem to give students that buy in, a personal and intimate connection to the material they are learning. The bad news is that I now know what happened to the lost colony of Roanoke...they threw themselves into the sea rather than edit another persuasive essay about their fate.
All kidding aside, I now have some very motivated writers and historians that also happen to be fifth graders. A writing assignment that began as five paragraphs and a single source has blossomed into a part time occupation in research and a thesis for some, so I can't complain too much.
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