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Lesson 32: Corroborating Sources
50 min
California CCSS: Focus Standards
California CCSS: Supporting Standards
ELD Standards
Student Lesson
Lesson 32: Corroborating Sources
Student Learning Objectives
1
Content
Students will select and examine credible external sources that corroborate and complement the information in the survivor stories from Seen and Unseen.
2
Language
Students will relate survivor testimony to other sources by using evaluation verbs (confirms, challenges, complicates), source attribution language (“According to . . . ,” “The interview states . . .”), contrastive connectors (however, in contrast), and academic nouns (credibility, evidence, perspective).
Essential Question
How can readers evaluate words and images for accuracy, perspective, and ethical use?
Connections to
Knowledge-Building:
Students will learn how to locate and analyze sources that can support research into Japanese American incarceration.
Enduring Understanding:
Researching additional sources can help us read the testimony of survivors with greater understanding of its context and perspective.
Future Lessons:
In future lessons, students will practice the craft of writing effective synthesis and then determine topics and research questions for their multimedia presentations.
Unit Performance Task:
This lesson offers students an opportunity to collect and analyze the external source they will need to complete the Performance Task.
Lesson Pacing
| Lesson Flow | Purpose of Learning Experience |
|---|---|
Launch5 Minutes | Students will engage in a turn-and-talk discussion to help identify external sources that could enrich their understanding of survivor narratives. |
Literacy Lab10 Minutes | Students will observe and practice the acknowledgment of sources through quotation and paraphrase. |
Learning in Action30 Minutes | Part A: Model Source Research (RI.7.1, RI.7.6, W.7.7) Students will observe as the teacher models the process of locating and examining an external source and connecting it to information from the anchor text. Part B: Research External Sources (RI.7.1, RI.7.6, W.7.7) Students will select and analyze an external source that corroborates or contextualizes survivor narratives from Seen and Unseen. |
Material List
- Unit 2 Lesson 32 Student Edition
- Central Idea and Details Organizer
- Seen and Unseen by Elizabeth Partridge and Lauren Tamaki
Routines
- Turn and Talk
Lesson Sequence
Lesson Texts
Short-Form Text
Letter to Clara Breed from Fusa Tsumagari, Poston, Arizona, October 9, 1942
Japanese American National Museum
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