Day III Wednesday

 

Warm-up (8 min):

Which hypothesis do you think is most likely to be correct? Why? What to you need to know to find out if the hypothesis you chose is true?

 

Activity (5 min):

1. Review schema and how it works through popcorn-style questions.

2. Pass out data sets with reading guides.

 

3. Pre-reading (10 minutes):

Pre-teach the vocabulary. Brainstorm with students what kinds of schema might be needed to read an historical document. Add some schema to the list like:

?#060;/span>        When historians write to each other, they write as if it were a discussion. They acknowledge the claims of others and dispute them.

?#060;/span>        Academics use complex sentences that don't get to the point right away, you have to be patient.

 

4. Do the reading (12 minutes):

Have a volunteer read the first data set out loud. Ask every couple sentences what the main idea was. Give them time to answer the reading guide questions in their journals.

 

Closure (2 min):

"Finish the questions for the first data set for homework if you have not yet done them."

 

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