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In a pages document, you will type your “Navajo Code Talkers” essay.

As you write, use the T-chart you created to come up with excellent evidence and elaboration.

Use the key below to color-code your essay. Your essay will be displayed.

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Watch the video:  Windtalkers Movie Clip

This video will give you a head start for what you are reading.

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Windtalkers (610) Movie CLIP - Call in the Code (2002) HD

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The Research Simulation Task requires students to analyze an informational topic through several articles or multimedia stimuli. Students read and respond to a series of questions and synthesize information from multiple sources in order to write an analytic essay.

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Today you will research the use of secret codes to communicate messages. You will read a passage from Navajo Code Talkers. Then you will read the article “American Indians in the United States Army” and the passage “What’s So Special About Secret Codes?” As you review these sources, you will gather information and answer questions about secret codes and the contributions of Native Americans to the U.S. military so you can write an analytical essay.

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Navajo Code Talkers

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American Indians in the United States Army

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1)  5- Paragraph Essay Structure
2)  Research Simulation Rubric
3)  Task Checklist
4)  Double T - Chart

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What's So Special About Codes?

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You have read a passage from Navajo Code Talkers, the article “American Indians in the United States Army,” and the passage “What’s So Special About Secret Codes?”

Write an article to display at a local history museum that explains the authors’ purposes for writing. Include an explanation of each author’s
purpose and what information the author includes to convey that purpose. Consider how the authors’ purposes are similar and different.

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Draw yourself this organizer to take your bullet notes for your essay