Community Experience

🗣️ Writer Questions and Belonging Notes

Competencies Content Expertise Critical Thinking & Problem Solving Effective Communication Collaboration
Standards CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.5 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.8.1 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.7 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.7
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Students listen to a local author, journalist, or poet discuss craft choices that help readers understand belonging, then capture notes in two columns: writer moves and belonging insights. In pairs, students generate interview-style questions, discuss what real users might say about feeling included or excluded, and record at least three evidence-based takeaways that can inform later How Might We statements. The class closes with a brief pair-share circle revisiting the essential question and citing one detail from the short story or guest comments.

Plan day
Day 2
Duration
45 min
Grouping
Pair
Steps