Concept Map: The Secret Garden

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.7 Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem).

I.       read the book

By reading the book, students will automically picture in their heads what they think is happening. They will be illustrating in their own head. The students will take turns reading aloud in class . This way students will be able to create their own view of the book while someone else is reading.

A.    pass out the book

B.    students take turns reading book aloud

1.    I will tell which student to read

II.     ask students what they thought the garden would look like

I will pass out paper to the students for them to answer on. I am having students write a page on what they thought the garden would look like. By writing it down, it is getting students to have to recall what they were illustrating in their own minds. I am using the garden because it is the easiest thing to specifically picture besides just saying the entire book.

A.    pass out paper for students to write on

B.    students will write on the paper what they envisioned the garden would look like

1.    students will have to recall from the reading what they thought the garden would look like

III.    watch the movie 

Students will watch the movie in class. I will just have the students stay in their normal seats during the movie. If a child has a circumstance where he/she cannot see the screen, then I will allow that student to move seats. The students will watch the movie to be able to see what other people imagined the garden to look like. I am thinking their perception of the garden will change due to actually seeing the garden compared to them imagining it themselves.

A.    students will watch the movie during the class period

1.    students will view the movie from their regular seats

B.    students will get to see what someone else thought the garden should look like

IV.    ask students to recall differences of the garden from the book to the movie

I will pass out paper for students to answer on. I will then instruct students to recall what they thought the garden would look like after reading the book. Then I will ask the same question but what they thought after seeing the movie. I will then have them examine how their perception changed after reading and viewing the movie, or if it did not change.

A.    pass out paper for students to write on

B.    instruct students to recall differences in how their perception of the garden changed and if it was a good change

1.    students will have to recall what they thought the garden looked like in the book and the movie

V.     write a page on what students think the garden looks like after seeing it in the movie

I will pass out paper to the students for them to answer on. I will then instruct them to write a page describing how they now view the garden after watching the movie. I am thinking their perception will have changed and I want them to be able to note that. Also, if their perception has not changed, I want them to be able to note that as well.

A.    pass out paper for students to write on

B.    students will write on the paper what they envisioned the garden would look like after seeing the actual garden in the movie

1.    students will have to recall what the garden looked like in the movie