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Language of the Discipline
Language of the Discipline is the language, vocabulary, terminology, and tools that specifically relate to the topic, content, and/or discipline.
Questions:
- What terms or words are specific to the work of the ____________ ?
- What tools does the _____________________ use? (What tools does an Egyptologist use to excavate an artifact?)
- Describe the causes and effects of plastic pollution on the ocean using terms an environmental researcher woul
- Describe how you would retell the fable as a puppeteer would with puppets.
Thinking Skills:
- Categoize
- Identify
Resources:
- Texts
- Biographies
Examples in:
ELA: Story Elements, Primary source language, Shakespearean vocabulary, character’s persona, descriptive words, stylistic devices, literary terms
Math: terminology, think aloud problem solving, mathematician, statistician, analyst, theorist
Science: biologist, oceanographer, physicist, chemist, environmentalist, botanist, geneticist
Social Studies: historian, commander, prisoner of war, sociologist, criminologist, economist, politician
Details
Details are elements, facts, traits, specifics, and features specifically related to the topic, content, and /or discipline.
Examples:
- What are the part-to-whole relationships?
- What evidence do you have to support your theory?
- Elaborate on your learning.
- Compare and contrast ________________ .
- What distinguishes omniscient from limited point of view?
- What are the attributes of a hero?
- Compare and contrast the three states of matter.
- Explain the defining characteristics of Shakespeare’s writing.
- What are the attributes?
- What features characterize this?
- What specific elements define this?
- What distinguishes this from other things?
Thinking Skills:
- Identify traits
- Describe
- Differentiate
- Compare/contrast
- Prove with evidence
- Observe
Resources:
- PIctures
- Diaries or jounals
- Poetry
Examples in:
ELA: Character analysis, supporting details, prove with evidence, defend with examples, author’s style, compare/contrast, informative writing, sensory details, elaboration
Math: data, prove with evidence, key words and numbers, steps in a process, attributes, functions, properties, chart or graph
Science: data, prove with evidence, support with examples, attributes, identify traits, classifications, observe, properties
Social Studies: timelines, facts, motives, causes/effects, historical figures, journals/diaries, primary accounts, compare/contrast
Published: Feb 23, 2018
Latest Revision: Feb 23, 2018
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