Today, we will use a four-corner's discussion protocol to connect students' lives with the reality of inequality using Reader Response Theory. Basically, students see a statement projected, and walk to one of the four corners of the classroom based on their response. They choose to "strongly agree," "agree," "disagree," or "strongly disagree." All they need to earn credit for the day is respond verbally to justify where they walked.

In this lesson, intended to develop schema about inequality, we'll start with a gallery-walk protocol during which students react to images of inequality. (This year responses will be tracked in a Google form to assess text complexity and prevent copying.) We will then utilize a second mix and mingle protocol using sentence strips describing the golden rule to build schema about the universality of equality (in theory) contrasted with the universality of inequality (in reality. 

During today's lesson, we'll actually take part in advancing the field of inequality in our country by participating in a study that over five million people have already taken. It's an amazing survey that uses simple words and images to figure out how your brain works before you have the chance to think and process your answer. While we'll start with some explanations of how the survey works, and what some of the demographic questions mean, largely, students are engaging with the test itself. 

During this lesson, students will start by examining the word cloud generated by our image analysis. They'll start with a group-based "observe and infer" protocol to essentially do a modified close read of the word cloud itself to build understanding. After sharing and clarifying their understanding of the cloud itself, students will work with their groups to write ten open-ended questions about inequality based on the word cloud. They'll use our inquiry-based learning sentence frames to help. Once they have written ten questions, they'll choose their three best based on our Quality Question Criteria. We'll then perform a hosted gallery walk where one group member will get feedback from the other groups. At this point, groups will winnow down their three top questions to the one best question based on their peer's feedback, and they'll turn in their top question.