| Different ways to be smart | Bloom’s Taxonomy: Six Thinking Skills | |||||
| Knowing | Understanding | Applying | Analysing | Creating | Evaluating | |
| VERBAL I enjoy reading, writing and speaking |
Describe in detail an important relationship between 2 characters. Give textual support and explain the importance of this relationship in the novel. | Identify a problem a character had to overcome in the novel and explain how they did this. Give textual support. | Classify all the different types of obstacles faced by the characters in your novel into appropriate areas. Give textual support. | Write three different diary entries for one of the main characters in your novel. Show how they changed during the course of the novel from the beginning to the end. | Write a speech for a world leader, describing what it is that makes someone a great survivor. Present it to an audience or tape it. | Why do you think the author of your book wrote this book? What can students learn from the ideas and situations explored in your novel? |
| MATHEMATICAL I enjoy working with numbers & science |
Find 5 ‘facts’ which justify the reasons why the main characters in your book can be classified as survivors. Find textual support. | Make a timeline of the events in the life of one of the main characters in the novel. Give textual support. | Create a CV for one of the main characters and make an application for a job that would suit them. | Research your author’s life and write up a mock interview. You may wish to present or video this interview with a partner. | Survey people in your class/school/family asking them in what ways they have had to overcome obstacles and be a ‘survivor’. Present this in a pie chart. | Create a mindmap explaining why the novel should be included in a capsule and dug up after 100 years. Why is it studied in many schools and what will it offer future generations? |
| VISUAL/SPATIAL I enjoy painting, drawing & visualising |
Sketch the two main characters and label with quotes from the novel that show at least three characteristics you have identified. | Design a new front cover for the book with a brief explanation of your design and how it relates to the themes | Draw an editorial cartoon depicting an incident from the novel that highlights one of the main ideas or themes that are discussed in the novel. | In a picture show how the relationship between two or more characters has changed from the beginning, middle and end of the novel. | Create an advertising campaign i.e. pamphlet & poster design (with an explanatory brief) for a speaking tour that one of the ‘survivors’ in your novel will go on to promote what they have learned from the experience. | Present pictorially the ‘journey’ that your character went through. (i.e. physically and/or emotionally). Provide a written explanation to accompany your pictogram. |
| MUSICAL I enjoy making & listening to music |
Find and annotate lyrics to several songs you know which deal with issues that have a clear connection to ideas explored in your text. Explain the connection. | Identify a genre of music that you think would suit the style of one of the characters. Explain why this would suit them. | Find a song which deals with the emotions/ feelings of an important character at some point in the novel. Reword the lyrics to suit the situation and character. | Create a sound scape that represents the novel. Think about the mood, feeling and action of the novel. Where is the climax, is there resolution? | ||
Published on: 18 Jan 2011
