6th - 8th Grades

Prompt: Paweł Kuczyński Isolation

Video link

Slides and Worksheet (updated by Stephanie Turner, Brunson ES)

Additional See-Think-Wonder inspiration from The NY Times and Project Zero.

You'll need to share only page 1 to avoid giving away answers.

• Call of the Wild

• Short paragraphs

Christine Kuhlenkamp recommends the Wizer.Me platform. Here's her sample lesson on Cells vs. Virus.

Six-Word Memoirs. Feel free to adapt for your own classes as needed, and share how you did it with the rest of us.

Sentence Stems for Recording History

Build your own Primary Source--journaling through COVID-19

• More Inferencing with Poetry Video #2 Instruction

• Graphic Organizer download or Google Doc

• 1. Find It: Indirect Characterization

  2. Inference Practice: Where Am I?

  3. Inference Practice: Who Am I?

  4. Visual Clues

  5. What Do You See?

  6. What Can You Infer?

  7. Using Inference in Writing

This lesson asks students to focus on asking questions about a prompt. This can be an excellent introduction to a new topic, but I've also used to to move students from learning about a topic to producing their own products (writing or speaking).

Once students learn this procedure, you can use any relevant Question Focus as your prompt.