Description
Ready for your students to gain a deeper understanding of Animal Farm? Hexagonal Thinking combines a concept sort and visible thinking strategy with student-centered text-based discussion to engage students in creative thinking and literary analysis as they develop critical insights into the novel.
HOW IT WORKS
Students arrange hexagon-shaped cards to show meaningful connections between characters, themes, symbols, and quotations from George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Working together, they must explain, justify, and defend their ideas with text evidence as they collaborate to co-create a hexagonal thinking map of connected ideas from the novel.
After completing the Animal Farm Hexagonal Thinking concept sort, students identify the connections they think are the strongest and write an explanation of how those items are connected. Sentence starters and teacher modeling are provided for the writing activity.
Hexagonal thinking can be used as a formative or summative assessment or as a brainstorming or pre-writing activity to help students develop ideas for a presentation, project, or essay.
★ GET MORE FOR LESS ★ with the Animal Farm Hexagonal Thinking Digital and Printable Duo!
WHAT'S INCLUDED
• 60 Hexagonal thinking cards labeled with characters, themes, symbols, and quotations from Animal Farm (laid out for quick and easy cutting with a paper cutter)
• Blank hexagon templates (with editable text boxes) for you or your students to create additional cards
• 9 Teaching slides with editable student directions, example hexagon clusters, sentence starters, and example written explanations
• Worksheet for the culminating writing assignment (2 versions)
• Handout with editable sentence starters to scaffold the writing activity
• Exit ticket for students to reflect on their learning (2 versions)
• User-friendly teacher’s guide with detailed lesson plan, variations, extensions, and tips for successful facilitation
WHY HEXAGONAL THINKING?
• Hexagonal thinking brings together interactive hands-on learning, collaboration, and student-led discussion as students think critically and analyze literature.
• Students engage in creative and complex thinking as they make their thinking visible by moving the hexagons around like puzzle pieces and creating a concept map that shows how important characters, themes, symbols, and quotations from Animal Farm are connected.
• Students consider multiple perspectives and think deeply about the novel as they participate in collaborative meaning making, explain their reasoning, and reach consensus about how to fit the hexagons together.
• The game-like, puzzle-solving aspect of the activity is fun and engaging for students!
COMMON CORE AND TEKS ALIGNED
• CCSS.CCRA.R.1 Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence
• CCSS.CCRA.SL.1 Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively
• CCSS.CCRA.SL.4 Present information, findings, and supporting evidence such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience
• TEKS.LA.9-12.E1.1.A Engage in meaningful and respectful discourse by listening actively, responding appropriately, and adjusting communication to audiences and purposes
• TEKS.LA.9-12.E1-2.1.D Participate collaboratively, building on the ideas of others, contributing relevant information, developing a plan for consensus building, and setting ground rules for decision making
• TEKS.LA.9-12.E3-4.1.D Participate collaboratively, offering ideas or judgments that are purposeful in moving the team toward goals, asking relevant and insightful questions, tolerating a range of positions and ambiguity in decision making, and evaluating the work of the group based on agreed-upon criteria
• TEKS.LA.9-12.E1-4.5.G Discuss and write about the explicit or implicit meanings of text • TEKS.LA.9-12.E1-2.6.A Analyze how themes are developed through characterization and plot in a variety of literary texts
• TEKS.LA.9-12.E3-4.6.A Analyze relationships among thematic development, characterization, point of view, significance of setting, and plot in a variety of literary texts
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• More Literature Resources
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Animal Farm Hexagonal Thinking Concept Sort and Text-Based Discussion
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Description
Ready for your students to gain a deeper understanding of Animal Farm? Hexagonal Thinking combines a concept sort and visible thinking strategy with student-centered text-based discussion to engage students in creative thinking and literary analysis as they develop critical insights into the novel.
HOW IT WORKS
Students arrange hexagon-shaped cards to show meaningful connections between characters, themes, symbols, and quotations from George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Working together, they must explain, justify, and defend their ideas with text evidence as they collaborate to co-create a hexagonal thinking map of connected ideas from the novel.
After completing the Animal Farm Hexagonal Thinking concept sort, students identify the connections they think are the strongest and write an explanation of how those items are connected. Sentence starters and teacher modeling are provided for the writing activity.
Hexagonal thinking can be used as a formative or summative assessment or as a brainstorming or pre-writing activity to help students develop ideas for a presentation, project, or essay.
★ GET MORE FOR LESS ★ with the Animal Farm Hexagonal Thinking Digital and Printable Duo!
WHAT'S INCLUDED
• 60 Hexagonal thinking cards labeled with characters, themes, symbols, and quotations from Animal Farm (laid out for quick and easy cutting with a paper cutter)
• Blank hexagon templates (with editable text boxes) for you or your students to create additional cards
• 9 Teaching slides with editable student directions, example hexagon clusters, sentence starters, and example written explanations
• Worksheet for the culminating writing assignment (2 versions)
• Handout with editable sentence starters to scaffold the writing activity
• Exit ticket for students to reflect on their learning (2 versions)
• User-friendly teacher’s guide with detailed lesson plan, variations, extensions, and tips for successful facilitation
WHY HEXAGONAL THINKING?
• Hexagonal thinking brings together interactive hands-on learning, collaboration, and student-led discussion as students think critically and analyze literature.
• Students engage in creative and complex thinking as they make their thinking visible by moving the hexagons around like puzzle pieces and creating a concept map that shows how important characters, themes, symbols, and quotations from Animal Farm are connected.
• Students consider multiple perspectives and think deeply about the novel as they participate in collaborative meaning making, explain their reasoning, and reach consensus about how to fit the hexagons together.
• The game-like, puzzle-solving aspect of the activity is fun and engaging for students!
COMMON CORE AND TEKS ALIGNED
• CCSS.CCRA.R.1 Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence
• CCSS.CCRA.SL.1 Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively
• CCSS.CCRA.SL.4 Present information, findings, and supporting evidence such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience
• TEKS.LA.9-12.E1.1.A Engage in meaningful and respectful discourse by listening actively, responding appropriately, and adjusting communication to audiences and purposes
• TEKS.LA.9-12.E1-2.1.D Participate collaboratively, building on the ideas of others, contributing relevant information, developing a plan for consensus building, and setting ground rules for decision making
• TEKS.LA.9-12.E3-4.1.D Participate collaboratively, offering ideas or judgments that are purposeful in moving the team toward goals, asking relevant and insightful questions, tolerating a range of positions and ambiguity in decision making, and evaluating the work of the group based on agreed-upon criteria
• TEKS.LA.9-12.E1-4.5.G Discuss and write about the explicit or implicit meanings of text • TEKS.LA.9-12.E1-2.6.A Analyze how themes are developed through characterization and plot in a variety of literary texts
• TEKS.LA.9-12.E3-4.6.A Analyze relationships among thematic development, characterization, point of view, significance of setting, and plot in a variety of literary texts
___________________________________________
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE
• More Hexagonal Thinking Resources
• More Literature Resources
___________________________________________
➼ Get Half Price and FREE Resources! ★ CLICK HERE ★ to follow my store and hear about sales, freebies, and new resources, which are always 50% off for the first 48 hours!
➼ Earn TpT Credits! ★ CLICK HERE ★ to leave a review and earn credits to use on future TpT purchases.
Thank you for visiting the ELA Toolkit store! Please contact me if you have any questions or requests.
Take care, Honor @ ELA Toolkit
