Using Google Meets or similar technology, the two schools will come together to debate each other. They will follow a parliamentary debate format and inde- pendent judges will decide which team won: the British or the Americans.
They will then have the opportunity to discuss the issues in at least two sittings, again using ZOOM or similar meeting software. Their classroom discussions will enable the students to: • Learn the difference between a debate and a discussion
• Explore the nuances of the disagreements between the nations in a col- laborative rather than adversarial exchange
• Imagine how things might have turned out differently if the Crown had made fewer demands on the Americans, or if the colonists had lost the war
The overall benefits to students are: •
A much richer engagement with a critical period of history
• A sharper sense of what primary and secondary sources are and how to use them
• Awareness of local historical societies and their function
• Awareness of what professional historians do and their function in soci- ety
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Stronger research skills
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