Teaching students think independently in order to know how to answer "the hard questions" is even more important today than ever before in recorded history. They are bombarded with access to information as never before which means it is ofthe utmost important that they know how to analyze a question and answer it based on the information that they gather based on all sides of an issue. Media-bias can influence a person's thinking and bad decision making can be the result.

1. Collaborative and Inquiry-Based
Learning for English Learners
through Sharing and Listening
Should we keep America’s
Immigration Door Open?

3. According to Dr. Margo Gottlieb, lead WIDA
Developer, “Academic language is defined by the
language of social interaction and that of core
curriculum areas. Academic content is associated
with the skills and knowledge of the discipline.
Language and content intersect when you
measure vocabulary.”

4. Create meaningful discussions that draw from conversational
language that includes academic vocabulary.
Sharing and Listening
while collaborating in
regards to something
that is meaningful to the
student will result in
great conversations and
discussions.
TG 13 Anticipation Guide

5. Teach students to be critical thinkers through a
unique questioning strategy supporting close
reading of complex texts.
 informational text
 close reading strategies
 writing to sources
 critical thinking
 appropriate text complexity
 text dependent questions and tasks
TG 16 Think Like a Historian

6. Shared Inquiry™ is a method of teaching and
learning that enables people of all ages to explore the
ideas, meaning, and information found in everything
they read. It centers on interpretive questions that
have more than one plausible answer and can lead to
engaging and insightful conversations about the
text. And it is based on the conviction that participants
can gain a deeper understanding of a text when they
work together and are prompted by the skilled
questioning of their discussion leader.

7.  Participants must read the selection carefully before the discussion.
 The goal of the group is to discuss the ideas in the text and explore
them fully.
 Participants should support interpretations of the text with evidence
from the work.
 Everyone needs to listen carefully to the other participants and respond
to them directly.
 The leader is there to ask questions rather than offer his/her own
interpretations of the text.
Five key guidelines to engaging in a successful Shared
Inquiry discussion:

8. From There to Here: The Immigrant Experience
Essential Question: Should We Keep America’s Immigration
Door Open?
Cluster One: Who Were the Immigrants and Why Did They
Come?—Investigating
Cluster Two: What First Experiences Did Immigrants Have?—
Analyzing
Cluster Three: Did Immigrant Expectations Match Reality?—
Comparing and Contrasting
Cluster Four: What Is the Immigrant Experience Today?—
Evaluating
Cluster Five: Thinking on Your Own—Synthesizing

9. Featuring the Cast from Avengers
Cluster One: Who Were the Immigrants and Why Did They Come?—Investigating
24-25 Ballad

10. Featuring the Cast from Big Hero 6
Cluster Two: What First Experiences Did Immigrants Have?—Analyzing
Ellis Island
SE 35

11. Cluster Three: Did Immigrant Expectations Match Reality?—Comparing and Contrasting
SE 83
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13. Cluster Four: What Is the Immigrant Experience Today?—Evaluating

14. Cluster Five: Thinking on Your Own—Synthesizing
www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/statueofliberty/
Read “The New Colossus” SE 15
Read “Your Tired, Your Poor, Your
Undocumented Foreigners SE 135
• Should people in desperate
situations remain undeterred by
the “laws and barbed wire” that
might keep them out of the
United States?
• Are Emma Lazarus’s words too
idealistic?
• What aspects of the current US
immigration situation seem ironic
or absurd to you? Express your
own opinion on the immigration
issue in the form of a political
cartoon.

15. Govt. and Current
Events
Historical Events
and Eras
Literary Genres Literary Themes

16. Kim Moore
678-323-5500
kmoore@perfectionlearning.com
www.perfectionlearning.com
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