Tag Archives: Open Mind Diagram

9/16/2016

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Hooray for Friday and Dr. Greeney’s birthday tomorrow! In case you didn’t know, that’s why so many people are dressed up in Star Wars outfits today. I’m no exception: I have my Chewbacca onesie on! Someone took a picture of me and Marlene in 2nd period, but I haven’t gotten it yet! I’ve been mean muggin’ students all day as Chewbacca!

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Who needs #thuglife when you can have #smugglerlife?

So today we did the Open Mind Diagram over a character in Beowulf. The directions are in Blackboard and there is also a template in Blackboard you can use (choose one head).

We chose characters based on where your thumb landed on the beach ball.

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You will need:

  • three images or symbols (don’t just Google images of your character)
  • 12 words or phrases (brainstorms)
  • 2 citations (parenthetically documented)

Easy peasy!

I’ll be grading this weekend, so if there are mistakes in Skyward on Monday morning, let me know.

Remember – the test is on Tuesday!

9/9/13 – A

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I know, I know. I haven’t been updating my blog. It’s been tough teaching three classes and making the switch over to BlackBoard. I probably won’t use as many pictures as I have in years past, but hopefully this will still be useful to you.

We read The Coming over Beowulf today, highlighting and taking notes as usual.

AFtwewareds, we added Pagan/Christian quotes to our list.

Lastly, we did the Open Mind Diagram. You can find instructions (and an example) in Blackboard and you can find two templates you can choose from in Power Point. Make sure that you cite correctly!

3/30/2012

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Aaaachooo! We sneezed out Sneeze #5 today, and then we spent about ten minutes editing and revising ONE of those sneezes so that Cap’n Riley can grade it. Edit it so that it is mechanically sound (spelling, grammar, punctuation, run ons, sentence structure, etc) and revise it to fix confusing sentences, take away unnecessary stuff, or add to it.

We then read The Battle with Grendel – it took about twelve minutes. Not bad at all. And it made me hungry for chicken legs – that’s actually what I had for lunch today! It was FATED!

We ended the day doing an Open Mind Diagram for Beowulf.

  • Do this in PowerPoint. Make sure it is Portrait, not Landscaped.
  • Find an outline of a head or profile.
  • Find three images that represent Beowulf.
  • Around each image, write four words or phrases. If you use phrases, I want no more than 3 words in the phrase. (3 images X 4 words = 12 words total).
  • Two quotes that are correctly cited that show Beowulf’s personality or his actions.

 

The rubric is in LMS if you want to see specifics.