1. Inquiry to Make Connections Summer Literacy Institute 2014
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Inquiry to Make Connections
Summer Literacy Institute 2014

2. Awesome and Effective Collaborations
Using the “Guided Inquiry” Approach
A classroom-ready lesson focused on Reconstruction, and easily adaptable to other time periods.
Based on Guided Inquiry Design: A Framework for Inquiry in Your School by Carol C. Kuhlthau, et.al.
Presenter:
A.B. Westrick,
Author of Brotherhood

3. BROTHERHOOD with awards
2014 Best Fiction for Young Adults
BROTHERHOOD with awards
Jane Addams 2014 Honor Book for Older Readers
Social Studies 2014 Notable Trade Book
Junior Library Guild Fall 2013 Selection

4. Guided Inquiry: You Will Need
Collaboration between Social Studies and Language Arts
= win-win for teachers and students
You will need:
Historical fiction or NF
Map
Photos
Newspaper articles
Writing tools

5. OPEN: Stimulate Curiosity IMMERSE: Connect to Content
Guided Inquiry
OPEN: Stimulate Curiosity
IMMERSE: Connect to Content

6. Daily tweet

7. OPEN: Stimulate Curiosity IMMERSE: Connect to Content
Guided Inquiry
OPEN: Stimulate Curiosity
IMMERSE: Connect to Content
EXPLORE: Look Around and Dig In

8. Civil War ruins

9. Ruins of Tredegar

10. African-American family

11. Women sewing

12. St. John’s Church

13. Children at St. John’s Church

14. Early KKK garb

15. Farmer’s market

16. Shockoe Bottom buildings

17. Map of Richmond’s burned district

18. OPEN: Stimulate Curiosity IMMERSE: Connect to Content
Guided Inquiry
OPEN: Stimulate Curiosity
IMMERSE: Connect to Content
EXPLORE: Look around and dig in
IDENTIFY: Sort through information, pause and ponder

19. Newspaper 1

20. Newspaper 2

21. Newspaper 3

22. Newspaper 4

23. Newspaper 5

24. Newspaper 6

25. 3. Add physical detail/description.
1. Imagine you are the person mentioned in the article. Write what happened from your point of view.
[Notebook paper]
2. Add dialogue.
3. Add physical detail/description.
4. Add textures. What do you feel with your fingertips?
5. What is the weather? The temperature?
6. What sounds do you hear?
7. What do you smell?
8. What emotions are you experiencing?

26. OPEN: Stimulate Curiosity IMMERSE: Connect to Content
Guided Inquiry
OPEN: Stimulate Curiosity
IMMERSE: Connect to Content
EXPLORE: Look around and dig in
IDENTIFY: Sort through information, pause and ponder
GATHER: Go broad and deep, asking your own essential questions

27. 2. What might the gender and race of the writer have been?
1. Imagine that the ink from the newspaper has stained your fingers. What does it smell like?
[Notebook paper]
2. What might the gender and race of the writer have been?
3. If you’d written this article, what might you have changed (included or deleted)?
4. What questions do you have about what’s going on in the article?
5. What do you find compelling, disturbing or interesting about this article?
6. What might you want to explore further?

28. Amendments to the U.S. Constitution

29. OPEN: Stimulate Curiosity IMMERSE: Connect to Content
Guided Inquiry
OPEN: Stimulate Curiosity
IMMERSE: Connect to Content
EXPLORE: Look around and dig in
IDENTIFY: Sort through information, pause and ponder
GATHER: Go broad and deep, asking your own essential questions
CREATE: Go beyond fact, make meaning

30. 1. How are you and I (today) affected by the 14th and 15th amendments?
[Notebook paper]
2. Who might feel threatened by my right to vote?
3. In what other countries around the world do some people feel threatened by others’ rights?
4. What might it be like to live (today) in the U.S. and not be a citizen?
5. What would happen if we didn’t have “due process of law” and “equal protection”?
[Elementary Level] What would you think if every 4th grader got 2 votes for every one vote that a 5th grader got?

31. OPEN: Stimulate Curiosity IMMERSE: Connect to Content
Guided Inquiry
OPEN: Stimulate Curiosity
IMMERSE: Connect to Content
EXPLORE: Look around and dig in
IDENTIFY: Sort through information, pause and ponder
GATHER: Go broad and deep, asking your own essential questions
CREATE: Go beyond fact, make meaning
SHARE: Tell your story

32. 1. What do you wonder about?
[Notebook paper]
2. What surprised you today?
3. What did today’s work make you think of?

33. OPEN: Stimulate Curiosity IMMERSE: Connect to Content
Guided Inquiry
OPEN: Stimulate Curiosity
IMMERSE: Connect to Content
EXPLORE: Look around and dig in
IDENTIFY: Sort through information, pause and ponder
GATHER: Go broad and deep, asking your own essential questions
CREATE: Go beyond fact, make meaning
SHARE: Tell your story
EVALUATE: self-assessment and reflection

34. 4. Where do I want to go from here?
1. What did I learn?
[Notebook paper]
2. What was clear?
3. What was confusing?
4. Where do I want to go from here?

35. (Hooray for historical fiction!)
Collaboration between Social Studies and Language Arts = win-win for teachers and students
[collaboration]
(Hooray for historical fiction!)

36. A process that encourages 5 types of learning:
Guided Inquiry
A process that encourages 5 types of learning:
Curriculum content
Information literacy
Learning how to learn
Literacy competency
Social skills

37. Awesome and Effective Collaborations
Inquiry to Make Connections
Summer Literacy Institute 2014
Awesome and Effective Collaborations
Using the “Guided Inquiry” Approach
Presented by A.B. Westrick,
Author of Brotherhood