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 * The Problem: **As a valued paralegal in the Roukebell law firm, you have been hand-picked to participate in a lawsuit on the teaching of holidays in the NC Public Schools. The defendant in our case is a school whose teachers have been "teaching" different holidays at different grade levels. Your team is researching the teaching of (insert your holiday here) in the (insert any grade level here) classroom. Our law firm has been hired to defend this teacher’s rationale for teaching this holiday.

 **Your Task: **Research all there is to know about your assigned holiday. Topics of interest to the judge are the history of the holiday, similar holidays around the world, and available children’s literature and other resources available on the topic. It is also very important that you show any correlation between when to use this holiday and standards set forth by the State of North Carolina’s public schools (K-8).

 **The Process: ** To ease communication in our giant law firm, each holiday will be represented in a Wiki, created by the law firm’s ruling partner—[|Dr. Roukema]. Distribute tasks among the other paralegals working your holiday so that each person is responsible for a portion of the research and Wiki-page creation. The entire team is responsible for visuals, aesthetics, and ease of navigation among your pages. (Be sure to insert a video clip on your Wiki’s homepage to assist the court in understanding this holiday.) Set team deadlines to ensure work is posted and reviewed before the due date.