Artifact of the Week
How can students explore real world experiences and stories?
In this article, Nicole Walker walks us through a process of evaluating "artifacts" (ie- any human made object) and understanding how the human experience changes our own interpretations.
Learning Outcomes
Having contact with the world and its stories
Materials
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Preview Lesson Plan
Any text is made new with each person’s experience of it. So one way we prepare ourselves to teach a text is to reposition it in the present moment, based on background knowledge students need and connections to contemporary issues relevant to our students.
When we, as teachers, properly contextualize whole-class texts, students then can move beyond seeing any single person’s interpretation of…
