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Additional Ideas and Resources - Shannon Green

Renaissance and AASL Standard - 1.1.7: Make sense of information gathered from diverse sources by identifying misconceptions, main and supporting ideas, conflicting information, and point of view or bias.

This subject area and set of information skills could also translate to a 4th grade classroom. Students could read (individually or as a class) fiction set in the Renaissance time period. Some ideas might include //The Midwife's Apprentice//, //The Sword in the Tree//, //Castle Diary//, //The Apprentice//, //The Whipping Boy// and //Crispin//. (Some of these may be closer to the Medieval period). Students could focus on point of view and discuss how the stories would be different if written from each of the different characters' points of view. Students could create a Glogster poster including two diary entries or story narrations to retell a part of the story from differing points of view. This lesson would be a stepping-off point into more complicated issues related to identifying bias.

Some of your unit standards that would apply to this 4th grade activity are: 1.1.6 2.1.6  3.1.4
 * Read, view, and listen for information presented in any format in order to make inferences and gather meaning.
 * Students will make inferences about what characters would think or do in given situations from the stories they read.
 * Use the writing process, media and visual literacy, and technology skills to create products that express new understandings.
 * Students will rewrite parts of the story from two differing points of view.
 * Use technology and other information tools to organize and display knowledge and understanding in ways that others can view, use, and assess.
 * Students will use Glogster to organize and display their work.

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