A few weeks ago, my school laptop wouldn't connect to the network in our school. I was planning on sending my work to the photocopier before class (sometimes I'm not always prepared) so I quickly photocopied a colouring page and had my grade 10s do an activating prior knowledge/synthesis activity.
I instructed my students to do representations (in the form of patterns) in the "waves" below the ground under the train station. The representations had to be of their favourite books, their favourite genres, or in the case of one student, their favourite teams. I didn't want any text (some did anyway), but I wanted to be able to guess the genre/book they were representing. I had them activate their prior knowledge (what was it that they remembered from their favourite books/genres?), and synthesize what they knew about the books/genres. The second part of the synthesis was to represent what they knew in a visual way, and of course the patterns threw in another twist.
Below are a few different pages I received.
This student used skulls, crossbones, and blood to represent violence in both a genre and her favourite book. However, she also likes to read about love, mystery, and fantasy. She's a Harry Potter fan too.
This student likes books about angels, fairytales, and likes the Hunger Games novels. The colours represent the intensity of emotions she feels, usually one mood which fluctuates (pink love - a "fluffy" kind, which changes to passion, the red love).
This student also likes to read about love, music, mystery, and fantasy. Another Harry Potter fan. This student included a "rainbow" of colours because she likes to read books where characters experience a variety of emotions.
This student is one of my hockey players, he chose to complete the page in the colours of his favourite teams. For book club, he read a book about hockey and how to improve his game.
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