Procedure

1. Students either make or receive a copy of an H-chart.

2. Students research the first assigned text or concept, recording relevant information within one leg of the H-chart. This can be done individually or in pairs.

3. As a class, students discuss the information they learned from investigating the first text or concept.

4. Students repeat steps 2–3 for the second text or concept.

5. Have students look at the information written in the two legs of the H-chart and write their "third text," synthesizing the information they learned, in the center of the H-chart.

6. Students engage in a whole-class discussion of their "third texts."

7. Students complete a larger writing assignment based on their synthesis of the two texts or concepts.