Lesson Five

Texts
Text E- The Feudal Church

Materials
Student Interactive Notebook (pgs. 13-14)

Activities
1. Individual Read
Read the Text D silently. Make your thinking visible by Talking to the Text.

2. Pair Discussion
With your partner go through the text discussing your reading bit by bit. Be sure to take turns sharing and listening.

• Share comments, questions, understandings, roadblocks, reading processes–how you made sense of the text, how you built new understandings.
• Listen to your partners’ thinking and elicit more thinking with questions such as:
  • What did you do?
  • How did that help you understand the reading?
• Help each other clarify roadblocks.
• Note commonalities or differences between you and your partner in your reading process.

3. Whole Class Discussion
Be ready to share your questions and understanding of this text with the class.

• What were the roadblocks and how did you get through them?
• Are there any words or phrases that you and your partner could not figure out?
• Is there something you still need to clarify?
• What does this section tell you about the life of a serf?

4. Pair Work
Work together to complete the evidence notetaker in the Student Interactive Notebook on pages 13 and 14.

• Now that you have learned more, what new claim do you want to make to answer the
  question?
• What claims do you now want to revise?
  What new evidence can you gather from this text to support your claims?

5. Draw Your Claims and Evidence
Using your new or revised claims and the evidence you have gathered on your notetaker, add to your drawing of Serf Thomas and Serf Anne.

6. Pair Share
Turn to your partner and share at least two parts of your drawing. Your teacher will ask for volunteers to share their drawing with the class.