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Your Turn: Developing Content Through Classroom Discourse
While you may not want to plan every lesson in your social studies curriculum to the level of specificity called for in the following activity, it will give you an opportunity to test your level of understanding of the content in this chapter. We encourage you to develop
Unit topic:
content using narrative and to apply our guidelines for using discourse. Questions need to be selected and scaf- folded so as to elicit the desired social construction of knowledge among members of the class.
Specific lesson topic:
Specific goal(s) for the lesson:
Major understandings to be developed:
Identify questions you will use to assess existing networks of prior knowledge.
Identify questions you will use to detect misconceptions.
Identify questions you will use to encourage students to connect prior knowledge with new information.
Narrative structure for building a content base. (Imagine you are presenting new information to students based on their responses to previous questions. Write down your “story.”)
Identify specific questions you will use to stimulate students to think about the new content you have presented, connect it to prior knowledge, and begin to share its applications.
Identify open-ended and higher-order questions you will ask to encourage students to consider alternatives perspectives.
Identify specific questions and/or summary comments you will use to bring closure to the lesson.
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