Calamity

Define Calamity

Reciprocal REading

• With a partner
• 1st person read a section
• 2nd person listens, annotates, then summarizes
• Then switch roles for the next section

Jigsaw Reading

• All 1's near front door
• All 2's near the back wall
• All 3's near the front table
• All 4's near the back door

Jigsaw Discussion

• What is the calamity being described?
• What are specific ways that it is described?
• Summarize the reading
• return to your team

Generalizing

• Each team member write your summary
• What do the summaries have in common?
• What is unique to each?
• What was the common experience?
• Write a generalization in the center.

Review

• Why do we generalize?
• Does this lead to accurate history?
• Does this lead to interesting history?
• Do difficult events lead to progress?