Thursday, September 21

Today’s Learning: Why do we look at things from far away and close up?

Warm Up: Please make sure you have included and labeled a minimum of seven items important to you on your Maps of My Life – My Dream Room map and that your map has a title and is colorful.

Class Work: Trade your Maps of My Life – World map with your assigned travel partner and write a conclusion about that person on their world map. Then trade your Maps of My Life – Lincoln map with your assigned travel partner and write a conclusion about that person on their map of Lincoln. And finally trade your Maps of My Life – My Dream Room map with your assigned travel partner and write a conclusion about that person on their map of their dream room. Hand your partner’s maps back to them when you’re done and return to your assigned seat.

Corroborating maps discussion:

• What conclusions can you come to about the creator of the maps?
• How did your understanding change with each map that was introduced?
• Why was it important to have different views?
• What were the advantages of a world map (far away) versus a map of someone’s dream room (close up)?

Maps can help us contextualize:

• In addition to timelines, maps are also helpful tools to help us better understand a person or event.
• Timelines tell us what was going on around the time an event happened, and maps show us where events happened.

Please attach your completed Maps of My Life – World to p. 18 and Maps of My Life – Lincoln to p. 19 of your notebook. Hand in your Maps of My Life- My Dream Room.