Words Matter: Intra and Intertextual Conversations

Directions:

1. Freewrite on your remembrances of the Clergymen's response and King's letter.
2. Break into two groups.
3. Re-read your assigned source:
   1. all the text of Clergymen's response and first two pages of King's letter
   2. all of your colleagues' annotations on Clergymen's response and first two pages of King's letter
4. Grab a sheet of paper and tear it into 8 equal pieces...more or less!
5. If you read the texts, go back and select 8 WORDS from those texts that you feel have immense weight and meaning on their own. Write down one word per one piece of paper.
6. If you read your colleagues's annotations, go back and select 8 WORDS from those annotations that you feel have immense weight and meaning on their own. Write down one word per one piece of paper.
7. Now look at your selected words. Think about their individual meaning. Maybe write down a definition on the piece of paper underneath or alongside the word. Ponder.
8. Now loook at possible relationships between individual words. Do some seem to fit together to form even deeper meaning? Do any words naturally form the beginnings of a research question or statement?
9. Rearrange your pieces of paper and your selected words several times. See the connections? Hear the questions? Write a few sentences which express connections or create questions.
10. Breakout rooms: Share your words and sentences and discuss within your groups!
11. Main room: Group share out! What did you group notice? What did you wonder?