Ok guys, so far we're doing a pretty good job on our blogs. An email was circulated recently among the administration and it showed our Eng dept was ahead of all other departments in terms of blog posts. This week's blog is about the Double Bubble Map.
If you have any questions about the Double Bubble Map, I sent out a pretty awesome email thoroughly explaining it. Remember, this is VERY similar to a Venn Diagram, and this kind of graphic organizer is important for them to understand because they're everywhere!
Keep up the good work, and, because I was a bit late with this blog, there will be another one at the beginning of next week!
I used a double bubble map to compare and contrast French schools and American Schools.
ReplyDeleteToday, I was supposed to have students create a Double Bubble Map comparing and contrasting Mercutio and Nurse from Romeo and Juliet. Since I ran out of time, they will do this next class. I have used this before for this activity, and it really works well for students. The Double Bubble is actually my favorite Thinking Map; I use it a lot!
ReplyDeleteAfter using drama,a persuasive essay, and a children's book in a unit on homelessness, we used a double bubble map to compare traditional and non traditional homes.
ReplyDeleteLike Heather, I really like this map. Comparison and contrast skills allow for higher order thinking.
Nice job with using double bubble maps to push students to HOTS.
ReplyDeleteSince I blogged about the double bubble map last week when I was supposed to blog about the bubble map, I will explain how I'm using a bubble map this week instead. I used a bubble map as a pre-writing activity for a project on Romeo and Juliet. The project was a character analysis on one of the main characters in the play, so I had the students create a bubble map on the characteristics of the person they were analyzing.
ReplyDeleteI mentioned this in the last post, but I used a double bubble map to compare and contrast "The Lottery" to an excerpt from The Hunger Games.
We did a double bubble map to identify the similarities and differences at the characters of the story we were reading. Espcially useful with the characters of Julius Caesar.
ReplyDeleteFor double-bubble map, my tech classes compared the society of Fahrenhiet 451 to our modern day society. The students used the data to answer the discussion question, "How is this novel a mirror for our society?"
ReplyDeleteI have roped my student teacher into using Thinking Maps, so this past week, she used a Double Bubble Map to compare and contrast characters in Romeo and Juliet. The students were allowed to pick any two characters for their maps.
ReplyDeleteI used a double-bubble map to compare and contrast Jay Gatsby and Robert Cohn, two legendary figures from American Literature. Both men are idealists with unrealistic expectations...subtle differences separate the two.
ReplyDeleteI also used a double-bubble map to compare and contrast literary terms with similarities, yet distinct differences that make them distinguishable (i.e. metonymy and epithet)
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