Text, Across the Centuries , p. 162-167. Explain that the sections in the assigned reading correspond with the subjects of the graphic overview. This overview is put on the board and the students copy it in their notebooks. Groups of four are to read the assigned pages and take ordered notes on the reading material. Teacher circulates and keeps groups on task with suggested ways to organize the information.
Students then share their notes while the teacher puts a suggestions on the board.
Edited segments are shown to gain an understanding of the Mongol culture. Yurts, horse herding and butchering, family relationships, fighting skill on horseback, and the geographic setting of the culture are shown. Students should note the things they learn and compare their notes in groups. They should draw a picture in their notebooks of the part that stands out in their minds. Folk tales from the book, The Master of the Winds , by Mirra Ginsburg.