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Castle Diary Lesson 7
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The Castle Diary
Essential / Focus/ and Content Question
Essential Question: How does society both support and limit the development of identity?
Focusing Question: How does soceity influence identity and experience?
Content Framing Question : (Know) How does Castle Diary build my knowledge of identity, experience, and opportuniy in the Middle Ages?
Craft Questions:
Execute: How can I track progress towards goals in a Socratic Seminar?
How can I use first person point of view and sensory language in a diary entry?
Craft Questions
Do NOW
Do Now
Distribute Handout 7A. Explain that it features discussion starters that help students use formal English in an academic discussion.
Students read Handout 7A and mark a star next to discussion starters that look particularly useful.
Focusing Question: How does soceity influence identity and experience?
Content Framing Question : (Know) How does Castle Diary build my knowledge of identity, experience, and opportuniy in the Middle Ages?
How did the medieval social order influence identity, experience, and opportunity?
Pairs discuss, referencing evidence they gathered for homework, from the texts, and from other Response Journal entries.
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How can I track progress towards goals in a Socratic Seminar?
Participate in a Socartic Seminar
Distribute Handout 4A.
A Socratic Seminar is a student-directed academic discussion. Students will discuss open-ended questions, and they will build on each others’ contributions with examples, evidence, follow-up questions, and minimal teacher participation.
Socratic Seminar
Handout 4A. Remind them that in the fishbowl discussion they had in Lesson 5, Students briefly discuss possible goals with a partner and write their own their own individual goal in the space provided.
In a circle, students discuss the Socratic Seminar
Question: Based on the module texts so far, how did the Medieval social order influence identity, experience, and opportunity?
Suggest that students begin with the first part of the question: “How did the medieval social order shape identity?”
Ask follow-up questions as needed:
What factors inform identity?
How was identity determined in the strict social order of the Middle Ages? How did the social order support identity? How did it limit identity?
Follow up questions
Assessment 7A Focusing Question Task 1
How can I use first person point of view and sensory language in a diary entry?
Assessment 7A.
Have pairs discuss what they plan to write about.
Students complete Focusing Question Task I, writing diary entries from the point of view of the poacher in his cell.
Exit Ticket 5 Mins
Exit Ticket/ Homework
Students turn to their partners to share their favorite sentence that they wrote in their Focusing Question Task.
Students respond to the following on a google Doc Journals: “How does Castle Diary build my knowledge of identity and the Middle Ages? What do I know now that I didn’t know before reading it?”