Wednesday, September 11

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.

Please attach your completed Maps of My Life – World to p. 15 and Maps of My Life – Lincoln to p. 16 of your notebook. Hand in your Maps of My Life- My Dream Room.

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.

On p. 17, please add these notes:

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.