Think-Pair-Share

Directions: Use the Think-Pair-Share routine to respond to the following prompts:

• Consider the video and photo gallery you viewed in the previous lesson. How might someone learn to make this type of pottery?

• A master is a person who is very expert or skilled at their craft. How might learning from a master be different from other ways of learning?

Consider the words mentorship, apprenticeship, and agency. Discuss the definition of these words as a class.

• Apprenticeship: the process of working for another to learn that person’s skill or trade

• Mentorship: the influence, guidance, or direction given by a mentor, or person with more experience

• Agency: the ability to act and make decisions independently

Literacy in Action

Part A: Introducing the Essential Questions

Directions: Consider these questions.

• Investigation 1: What does it take to learn something difficult?

• Investigation 2: How does art connect people to their history and community?

Turn and Talk

Use the Turn-and-Talk routine to discuss these questions:

• When was the last time you learned something difficult? What steps did you take to learn? Who helped you learn?

• Have you ever had a mentor or experienced mentorship in the past? If so, when? What did this experience help you learn?

• Why is art important? What can it tell you about the past? What can it tell you about a culture?

Part B: Apprenticeship in Action

Directions: Watch the video about apprenticeships. Discuss the following prompts in small groups:

• Why do people choose to learn something difficult?

• How does an apprenticeship build agency?

• What skills or hobbies have you learned from someone else?

• Based on the video, what do apprentices gain from learning directly from a master that they could not on their own?

• Which details support the central idea of the video, showing how skills and values are passed down through mentorship?

Create a Class Chart

Use the T-Chart graphic organizer to describe and compare the characteristics of effective and ineffective mentors. You will answer the question:

• What are the qualities of an effective mentor? What qualities would make a mentor ineffective?

Quick Write

Directions: Respond to the following prompt:

• Write three to five sentences to add to this sentence starter:

  • A time I learned by watching someone was when . . .