DAY 2: SOURCE GATHERING AND ANALYSIS

Lesson Hook:
● Teacher will begin by reading a text regarding the ancient wonders, stopping throughout
to discuss with the class.
● Teacher will explain how they took some annotations after each paragraph, and discuss
those annotations in brief with the class (to provide an example of the think-aloud activity
to follow).
● Students will add their own thoughts on what the teacher is reading during each pause.
● Once reading and discussions are completed, the teacher will explain the think-aloud
method demonstrated and provide instructions so that they may practice it next.

Activity:
● Have students go through the module of their chosen ancient wonder. Students will read
an article on their ancient wonder as a group.
● 7 WONDER ARTICLES
● The students will take turns reading aloud. When a student is not reading, they are
taking notes to share during the discussion phase. These notes will be like annotations,
the student’s thoughts, feeling, and quips about what they have read.
○ If they are the reader, the student will do their best to take mental notes but no
written notes will be required until they are no longer the reader.
● Students will then share their think-aloud/notes from the article with the rest of their table
whenever the table changes their reader.
○ The reader will change after each paragraph.
● Other students will listen and take brief notes while the singular student is sharing during
a discussion.
● READ ALOUD INTRODUCTION

Closing:
● Students will form different groups consisting of students with different wonders.
● Students in these groups will share and compare their notes for their article to share
what they learned with each other.
● After each student has shared, students will form new groups consisting of only those
with their same wonder.
● Students will compare and contrast their notes to see if they all got the same points from
their reading.
● The group will write their summative information on an online class discussion board and
post it by the end of class (as a group with the members’ names at the top).
● Groups are expected to post one comment under the other groups’ posts.