Coach's Page
The ThinkQuest team used many skills in creating this website. They began this website with the ideas of creating a site about World War 2. As they began researching, they found an abundance of information available to them. They decided to focus on the Holocaust instead, since this played a role in World War 2. They learned more about the Holocaust through Lois Lowry's book, Number the Stars.

Listed below are the skills the students used. They have been listed from Georgia's Quality Core Curriculum (QCC's).
Topic/ Language Arts Number Standard
Listening/Speaking 2 Listens and responds to a variety of literary forms.
Listening/Speaking 3 Follows multiple oral directions.
Listening/Speaking 4 Recalls, interprets, and summarizes information presented orally.
Listening/Speaking 9 Uses oral language for different purposes: to inform, persuade, and to entertain.
Listening/Speaking 11 Increases vocabulary to reflect a growing range of interests and knowledge.
Listening/Speaking 15 Uses grade/age appropriate standard American English when communicating orally.
Reading 16 Increases vocabulary to reflect a growing range of interests and knowledge.
Reading 18 Follows written directions.
Reading 19 Reads a variety of materials for information or pleasure.
Reading 20 Reads for a variety of purposes in different kids of texts.
Reading 27 Recognizes EXPLICT main ideas, details, sequence of events and cause/effect relationships in fiction and nonfiction.
Reading 28 Recognizes IMPLICIT main ideas, details, sequence of events and cause/effect relationships in fiction and nonfiction.
Reading 30 Identifies characters' actions, motives, emotions, traits, and feelings.
Reading 31 Draws conclusions, makes predictions, compares/contrasts, and makes generalizations.
Reading 34 Demonstrates comprehension when reading a variety of litereary forms.
Writing 38 Uses examples from litereature to create indvidual and groups stories.
Writing 39 Uses correct spelling for frequently used sight vocabulary.
Writing 44 Writes in a variety of genres to produce paragraphs and compositons.
Writng 45 Applies correct principles of grammar, parts of speech, usage, and mechanics.
Writing 50 Uses available technology to assist in writing.
Litereature 57 Recognizes cultural diversity represented in literature.
Reference/Study 59 Uses the media center and available technology as sources of information and pleasure.
Reference/Study 62 Locates information using the appropriate reference materials.
Reference/Study 66 Develops a simple outline from a short selection.
Topic/Social Studies Number Standard
Depression, War and Recovery 21 Analyzes and explains the major causes, events, and personalities of WW2 (Holocaust)
Information Processing 26 Uses features of books for information.
Information Processing 28 Determines sequence of events and identifies cause and effect relationships.
Information Processing 33 Analyzes interpretations of the same event from multiple sources.
Information Processing 34 Selects and discusses the main idea from a reading passage or listening activity.
Civic Participation 45 Works within a group, following set rules of procedures to complete an assigned task.