Sandra K. Friday
Because I am always bewildered at how little my students know about locations of things, both local and global, I plan to have a globe of the world, maps on the walls, and each student will have handouts of the parts of the world they are studying through field trips, films, and the novella. They will jot notes and identify places on these map- handouts that will become a part of their final portfolio made up of their: alphabet books and related work, graphic organizers, flashlight metaphor for the essay, essay drafts, self-assessment, and maps. My students often surprise themselves with their success, when they have a body of work to show for the time, creativity, and thinking they invested in a class project, and not just a bunch of loosely related papers, helter-skelter in a notebook or folder.