The SURN Social Studies and History Forum blog facilitates middle school and high school teachers who attended a workshop on using high yield literacy strategies in history class to share and showcase what they are doing in their classrooms, offers a forum for questions, and lets viewers read posts of how teachers are working to effectively use literacy strategies they learned at the workshop.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
SOL Exams
As I review for the SOL Exam, I have noticed that my students continue to connect content from early units to more recent content. I chose to focus on connections in every lesson, and it seems to be paying off. We created a flip chart to compare political, economic, and social/cultural items for the major units. We also added non-linguistic representations to each section, and my students created a complicated Venn diagram to compare and contrast. Their work really impressed me!
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