Lesson Four: Serf Thomas & Anne

Texts
Text D- Feudal Peasants

Materials
Student Interactive Notebook (pgs. 11-12)

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

2. Pair DiscussionTC_Bubble
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 understanding of these texts 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 text tell you about the life of a serf?

4. Pair Work
In pairs, discuss the following questions and complete the evidence notetaker on page 11 of the Interactive Notebook.

  • Now that you have learned more, what new claim do you want to make to answer our 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’s life.

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