To offer students the opportunity to practice analyzing points of view and support engagement in reading texts.
Outcome
Students possess a variety of strategies to read, analyze and comprehend complex texts through their teacher’s instructional abilities.
Action Steps
Provide students with guiding questions ahead of time.
Students read required text.
Students compose a dialogue between two authors or narrators with opposing viewpoints.
Students share out. Invite pairs to act out their dialogue for the class. Afterward, discuss as a class what the conversations had in common, and what was added to the class understanding of this issue.
