Decolonizing Women

Julianne Horowitz , sounds like a one-pager might work here! You could have 4 main boxes that have students use images, symbols, and/or words to do what the body paragraphs would have done. Maybe they have to have one quote, a key term, a person, a little map, or some combination of things. Choice is good! Then, the borders of the page could serve as the intro or conclusion. Or maybe they write out one one of those paragraphs on the back of the one-pager? I love one-pagers when I feel bogged down because the assessment really becomes "do they get it or not??"

Julianne Horowitz , a perfect application for a World Cafe approach, gets the kids talking and representing their ideas in visual and words but leaves you little to grade. I love watching them get their ideas together. I have attached the description for the process if you haven't used this method.

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That would work really well ERIN CUNNINGHAM !

Love the idea of giving them some choices for each quadrant. Thanks!

I'm super interested in this Cafe approach Curtis Greeley . The PDF you attached makes this so easy for teachers to implement, thank you!!!

Just curious, what lessons/units have you used this with so far?  How did you go about assessing students' participation/output? 

Julianne Horowitz , I've been utilizing this to change up our reading protocols for every third article to keep things fresh. After we have read the article, I have a student from the group write a question from Key Ideas—Understanding Content questions at the top of a piece of poster paper and their group writes a response. When the next group rotates in, they have to expand on the responses left behind without repeating the same ideas, it needs to be a novel response. I don't feel the need to assess this any more than I do at the end of the other articles we read, but if I was going to, I would use my seating chart or group lists to record participation points. For me, it's just about the process. It makes what good readers do while reading explicit. 

Sounds great Curt, thanks for sharing this!!