Wednesday, September 18

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)?

On p. 15, please add these notes:

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.

Multiple Perspectives:

• Maps help us corroborate and contextualize; they can also help with multiple perspectives.
• Each of us could have come up with different conclusions about the person whose maps we studied because we bring different perspectives to the task.
• A girl might have a different perspective than a boy. Someone your age might have a different perspective than someone my age. A historian might focus on different information than an archeologist would. An individual from Europe might have a different perspective than someone from Asia might. The leader of a country might have a different perspective than a commoner. Etc., etc.
• It is vital that we hear as many voices – multiple perspectives – as are available so that our understanding of an event is as complete as possible.

Please attach your completed Maps of My Life – World to p. 16 and Maps of My Life – Lincoln to p. 17 of your notebook. Hand in your Maps of My Life- My Dream Room.