Marzano Lesson K-W-L

I don't know for sure if this is in Marzano, but it should be. He may call it something different. We're currently working on a research project in language arts based on Billy Joel's song "We Didn't Start the Fire," which makes reference to several 20th century people, places, and events. Most of these people the kids have a vague reference for, but there are many they do not know. The KWL strategy (What I know, What I want to know, and What I learned) works well especially if they have little background knowledge of their subject. That way they can generate more questions in the W mode. After they started their research, it was fun to see the questions they came up with; definitely more than surface-level thinking. They really wanted to go deep. It'll be even more interesting to find out what they learned in the end.