I have been co-teaching in 12th grade English at GISH with Laura McQuinn a couple of days per week. We usually plan once or twice a week, as well. I have attached a video and photo related to the lesson we did last Friday. She felt the students were getting confused with all of the characters in Hamlet so the day before this they did an activity where the characters were assigned to various groups of students and they placed sticky notes with important information about the character on posters for each character. On Friday, we did a Line-up and then placed the students in heterogeneous groups for the carousel walk. Each group started at a different Hamlet character and a visual timer provided them 2 minutes at each station to read stickies, discuss the character, and record information on the organizer (which is also linked to this blog). The organizer had the students identify facts about each character as follows:
1. Static or Dynamic
2. Round or Flat
3. Conflict he/she is involved in
4. Any helpful statements or questions from sticky notes
Support was provided by co-teachers, graphic organizer and learning tips, cooperative learning groups, scaffolding the day before. Differentiation was also provided for those students needing a challenge by giving extra sticky notes to students who would complete the organizer quickly...as they were asked to provided supplementary information about each character to the poster beyond what was already there.
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