Teaching Strategies
This curriculum unit is designed for students to develop higher order thinking skills, so many of the activities require students to analyze both fiction and non-fiction texts as well as critically view historical artifacts and pieces of visual art.
Students will learn the necessary background information through a variety of instructional strategies including direct instruction through lecture, discovery learning, close reading, whole-class and fishbowl discussions, and multi-media analyses. The fishbowl discussions will help students practice being both contributors and listeners in a group discussion. It is especially helpful in ensuring that all students participate and pose questions and ideas to each other that they can later explore in more detail in independent writing assignments.
Throughout the unit, students will write in various forms to prepare for class discussions, summarize ideas, create a children’s book and a narrative /script for their comparative multi-media presentation. Using inquiry-based practices, students will further develop the critical thinking skills needed for research writing.
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