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This was definitely an exciting assignment to accomplish! I enjoyed being able to add a little flare to Raleigh history, as North Carolina history is one of my favorite topics in history. I hope that my students will be as thrilled about this lesson as I will be. As a hook, I would like to introduce my fictionalized version of Raleigh history before taking my students on a fieldtrip to the historic sites of Raleigh, especially the State Capital, the Joel Lane house and the numerous historic monuments in downtown. Students will identify and analyze the significance of historic Raleigh and the birth of North Carolina’s capital city. I would also like for students to particularly pay close attention to the architecture of downtown Raleigh and how/if European art affected the structural designs of the building in Raleigh. Upon arrival back to the classroom, students can present their discovery of the birth of Raleigh and architecture in a creative fashion- either through a newspaper article, diary entries, scrapbooking, or the production of a movie in which role-playing is utilized to demonstrate their understanding of the subject matter.
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