This week we are using Flow Maps in our instruction and then sharing our ideas. Be sure to included both ideas that worked along with ideas that didn't work as well. I believe we can all learn from both!
In our review of "The Crucible," my student teacher had students work on a flow map to point out the sequence of events in the story. Students also used sub-stages, and they wrote details about each major event that happened in the timeline. It was important for students to get the order of events correct. The exercise was a tremendous success.
After using Circle Maps and two-column Tree Maps to brainstorm for expository and persuasive essays, my students used the Write for the Future version of the Flow Map (which resembles a Tree Map in the middle) to rough draft/outline their essays before actually writing them.
In Spanish 2 we read an excerpt of “The House of the Spirits” in the target language. Students are given a flow map that shows the stages of an event. Students read the text and identify these stages. In smaller rectangles below, students write the key words in Spanish that helped them identify the stages.
I usually have my students track the flow of key events and happenings in a novel with key words and/or quotes under each event...easy to do with literary works.
My English 2 students are doing an independent novel unit right now, so I'm going to have them create a flow map to explain the sequence of the main events in the novel they chose to read.
This one has been very useful for my Tech Prep classes as they have been creating their "virtual" resource projects via PowerPoint. My CP classes were given the information and opportunity to use the map if they wished to do so, but I did not require them to use it. I am finding that modeling the maps and pointing out the usefulness works much better than requiring them to use them.
We used flow maps to help prepare for the writing part of the HSAP by having students write down their ideas in the progression that they need to write their essays in. And by observing some students during HSAP testing, they were definitely using these flow maps to write their rough drafts.
In our review of "The Crucible," my student teacher had students work on a flow map to point out the sequence of events in the story. Students also used sub-stages, and they wrote details about each major event that happened in the timeline. It was important for students to get the order of events correct. The exercise was a tremendous success.
ReplyDeleteAfter using Circle Maps and two-column Tree Maps to brainstorm for expository and persuasive essays, my students used the Write for the Future version of the Flow Map (which resembles a Tree Map in the middle) to rough draft/outline their essays before actually writing them.
ReplyDeleteIn Spanish 2 we read an excerpt of “The House of the Spirits” in the target language. Students are given a flow map that shows the stages of an event. Students read the text and identify these stages. In smaller rectangles below, students write the key words in Spanish that helped them identify the stages.
ReplyDeleteI usually have my students track the flow of key events and happenings in a novel with key words and/or quotes under each event...easy to do with literary works.
ReplyDeleteMy English 2 students are doing an independent novel unit right now, so I'm going to have them create a flow map to explain the sequence of the main events in the novel they chose to read.
ReplyDeleteMy Fast Track students used a flow map to map the events in the life of Maya Angelou before we read an excerpt of her authobiography.
ReplyDeleteThis one has been very useful for my Tech Prep classes as they have been creating their "virtual" resource projects via PowerPoint.
ReplyDeleteMy CP classes were given the information and opportunity to use the map if they wished to do so, but I did not require them to use it. I am finding that modeling the maps and pointing out the usefulness works much better than requiring them to use them.
I used a flow map to discuss the plot sequence in "The Scarlet Ibis".
ReplyDeleteWe used flow maps to help prepare for the writing part of the HSAP by having students write down their ideas in the progression that they need to write their essays in. And by observing some students during HSAP testing, they were definitely using these flow maps to write their rough drafts.
ReplyDeleteWe used a flow map to sequence the events of a story that we read in French III.
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