In this case, I wanted to experiment with mind mapping. Mind mapping is just using symbols or a flow chart to diagram information out and make a quick reference guide about the topic at hand.
The subject was a fairly complex reading on the interactions between whites and blacks in the ante-bellum South. We had a lengthy discussion on the subject, and for lack of a better idea for a lesson plan in my absence, asked the kids to draw the chapter.
This example is pretty amazing--and not for the artistic talents of the kids, but from their ability to encompass nearly every major idea in one tableau.
Here it is...
With any luck, all this will look familiar in 18 months around test time...
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