Ancient Greece:

What Went Well?

• Split up the work without arguing.
• Felt supported (friends could help when needed)
• Presentation was low-stakes

Challenges?

• Memorize long questions
• Choosing a Group
• Reducing information to key ideas/key words
• Finding information
• Interruptions during presentation

How can we improve?

• Learn vs Memorize
• Be open minded
• Carefully read and think
• Be respectful and mindful

Jigsaw Learning

• Split into small groups
• each group member was responsible for a chapter
• Chapter groups collaborated
• Learning culminated with short Presentations

Jigsaw Part II

Still split into small groups

This time,however, group members will all work on the same chapter--meaning we'll jigsaw sections

Small group work

• Individual (time to carefully read and think)
• Collaborative (time to support)

Goals

Goal 1: Students will be able to collaborate efficiently and respectully

Goal 2: students will learn something interesting in a fun way.

Remember, I'm not concerned with you memorizing the entire chapter.

This week

• Practice carefully reading
• Reducing information to key ideas (talking points)

Next Week

• We'll split into groups
• Start Jigsawing
• Draft a short presentation to share with your groups.

Jigsaw Part II

Today's objective

• Split into groups of 4
• Select a section of Ch. 26 to research.
• Start taking notes (graphic organizer)

Why Graphic Organizer?

• They visually organize new information
• They illustrate connections between ideas.

Additional Expectation

• Students must individually complete a graphic organizer for their section BEFORE collaborating with peers.

Collaboration

• Collaborating groups will be expected to compare and contrast their graphic organizers BEFORE drafting a short oral presentation.

Questions?

Day 2:

Day 2 Objectives

• Complete your chosen section's graphic organizer
• Collaborate in groups of three (compare/contrast/record)
• Draft a "section" group Graphic Organizer (Mon., Olig., Tyr., Dem.)

Collaboration

• Identifying the main ideas of your section is the purpose for collaborating

In other words, your group's goal is to reduce information from each paragraph read into key talking points

Supporting Detail

• After identifying the main ideas from your section, your next goal is to add important details that support those ideas.

Section Group Graphic Organizer

• Once a group of three has collaborated, they must present their work to the teacher for discussion.
• Approved groups (3) will move onto the next step--drafting an oral presentation.

Timeline

• Tuesday: Collaborate/Draft A group Graphic Organizer
• Wednesday: Collaborate/Draft Presentation
• Thursday: Practice Presentations
• Friday: Practice Presentation/Give Oral Presentations

Day 3:

Day 3 Objectives

• Collaborate in groups of three (compare/contrast/record)
• Draft a "section" group Graphic Organizer (Mon., Olig., Tyr., Dem.)
• Draft oral Presentation

Presentations

• Remember, these will be given to your jigsaw group of 4, not to the whole class

Show what you know

• Your presentation's written draft will demonstrate your understanding of your section.

Draft Scores

• Thourough understanding of every paragraph (4)
• A good understanding (3)
• A partial understanding (2)

Keep in mind

• You will eventually take a group test on Ch. 26
• Thus, spend time learning, not memorizing, your section by writing an oral presentation that will help you process information read.

Timeline

• Wednesday: Collaborate/Draft Presentation
• Thursday: Practice Presentations
• Friday: Practice Presentation/Present

Day 4:

Day 4 Objectives

• Draft a "section" group Graphic Organizer (Mon., Olig., Tyr., Dem.)
• Draft oral Presentation
• Create community agreements

What are community agreements?

In short, community agreements are member created classroom expectations

Why community agreements?

The purpose of creating community agreements is to improve our learning experience.

For this reason, we need to discuss...

What helps facilitate learning during presentations...

and what hinders learning during our presentations?

Presentation Protocls

• Quickly find a spot
• Remember, not too loud, not to quiet.
• Keep an eye on time
• Quietly read a book after everyone's presented.

Presentation Protocls

• Quickly find a spot
• Keep an eye on time
• Quietly read a book after everyone's presented.

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Jigsaw:

Structure

• Split the work and create their own graphic organizers
• Partners will present to each other
• Then members will rotate and present other groups

Graded

Individually

• Written summary
• In other words, your presentation's written manuscript will demonstrate your understanding of your section.

Manuscript Scores

• Thourough understanding of every paragraph (4)
• A good understanding (3)
• A partial understanding (2)

Group Test

• Tests will be done in groups of 4
• Short answer questions will revolve around comparing and contrasting life in Athens vs. Sparta

Objective Day 1

• Create Graphic Organizer for one section
• Start manuscript for your presentation
• Conference with Teacher
• Continue working while waiting to conference

Sparta vs Athens

Agenda

• Monday: G.O. and Summary
• Tuesday: G.O. and Summary II
• Wednesday: Practice Presentations
• Thursday: Presentations
• Friday: Kahoot, Test, Practice Test

Things to do:

Finish second graphic organizer and summary.

Edit and polish second summary.

Practice Presentation.

Read an additional section.

Illustrate presentation visuals

Priorities

• Finish second graphic organizer and summary.
• Edit second summary.
• Practice Presentation.
• Read an additional Section.
• Illustrate presentation visuals.

Tomorrow

• Presentations
• Group Test
• Kahoot

Priorities

• Finish second graphic organizer and summary.
• Edit second summary.
• Practice Presentation.
• Read an additional Section.
• Illustrate presentation visuals.

The Golden Age of Athens

Agenda

• Tuesday: G.O. and Summary I
• Wednesday: Guest Speaker/Revise
• Thursday: G.O. and Summary II
• Friday: Present, Kahoot, TBD

Priorities

• Create graphic organizer.
• Draft summary.
• Seek Feedback.
• Illustrate section 1 visual.