Thursday, July 12 [Day 4]

How do we create a culture of inquiry in the classroom?


9:00 - 9:10

Reaction sheets from day 3


9:10 - 9:25

Morning Reading Repeat: "What do we mean when we say urban?" (Teaching for Black Lives, Watson, 2018, pp. 183-185)


9:25 - 10:15

Thinking Like a Historian with Primary and Secondary Sources

World War I and Prosthetic Limbs


10:15 - 11:00

Lorraine Ustaris & Fareed Mostoufi: Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting: Connecting to Underreported Global Stories


11:00 - 12:00

Journal Groups


12:00 - 1:00

Lunch

  • Foxfire (Part II)


1:00 - 1:20

Lorraine Ustaris, Fareed Mostoufi, and Emily Feldman: Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting: Thinking Like a Journalist


3:00 - 3:30

Reflections and Wrap-up

  1. Complete reaction sheet
  2. Consider posting reflections to TPS Teachers Network
  3. Teaching autobiography due on Monday
  4. Readings for Day 5
    • Gonzalez-Carillo & Merson (2013)
    • McGrew, Ortega, Breakstone, & Wineburg (2017)
    • **[Switch - 30] Wineburg & Martin (2009)
    • Teaching for Black Lives
      • "Bearing Witness through Poetry" (pp. 204-212, R. Watson)
      • "Black Like Me" (pp. 294-298, R. Watson)
      • "#MeToo and The Color Purple" (pp. 320-324, L. Christensen)
    • Circle back to Alim & Paris (2017)

Goals

  • Justify conclusions about whether a source is primary or secondary depending upon the time or topic under study—and discuss why this matters
  • Analyze primary sources in different formats
  • Consider goals for teaching with a range of texts (including primary sources)
  • Reflect on the news we seek and how we find it
  • Explore Pulitzer Center reporting and identify global stories that interests us
  • Reflect on ways to share global issues with students

Readings

  • Janks, H. (2010). Orientations to literacy. In Literacy and Power, (pp. 21-33). New York: Routledge.
  • Shanahan, T., & Shanahan, C. (2008). Teaching disciplinary literacy to adolescents: Rethinking content-area literacy. Harvard Educational Review, 78(1), 40-59.
  • Wineburg, S. (1999). Historical thinking and other unnatural acts. Phi Delta Kappan, 80(7), 488-499.