Week two will begin with a day dedicated to gathering background information on the students' topics. They will use a BBC website and a power-point we made to gather general information on the countries and regions included in their topic. This will also allow them to compare between western and native perspectives. The second day of that week will focus on the use of primary & secondary sources. We will explore these through an activity which will teach students how to understand the difference between primary and secondary sources and how to use and analyze the content of each. A worksheet will be distributed that will guide students as they read the primary and secondary sources from their portfolio. They will then reconvene so that we can tell them how to apply what they did to their further research. The last day of the week will be similarly spent doing a poetry activity which will teach how to use external resources to understand the content of poetry. Students will engage in a guided activity that will model how to read a poem for content and explicate that content with external information about the author, the region in which it was written, and the time period.
CHU - Planning Matrix - Week 2
