Reply To: Year 8 English Inquiry into Masquerade

[LibrarianWallace Participant]

Hi Jenny, thank you so much for your reply, really useful!

The inquiry project is going to be over 4 lessons, with a couple of homeworks included for students to carry out research during the investigate phase and create their masks during the express phase (over Easter holidays).  I realise this is not very long, so your advice on providing lots of guidance and also limits to the inquiry is really important.  I think guiding students to possible/suitable inquiry questions they could ask and limiting down their investigation to a currated list of sources, plus mask styles / themes will ultimately help support and direct the students.

I really like the broad question of ‘What’s behind the mask?’ to lead the inquiry as that encompasses so much and is also elusive, which I guess is what masks are! And I’m going to have the glossary running alongside the inquiry for students to register words as they proceed as you suggest.  Thank you also for the worksheet idea for the construct phase – I’ll give it a go creating something and see how it works.

Thanks again, I feel like this is also my own inquiry into inquiry – an opportunity to investigate and experiment!

Emma