Some Superior Outcomes for
Gifted Learners
in the Night of the Notables
Programme™
See also espaliered
on educational models
- WRITTEN
- comprehensive biography
- fictional biography
- fictionalised autobiography
- atlas or map displaying data from notable's life
- brochure on notable's life
- lecture script with Powerpoint presentation
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GAMES
- maze, word finder on relevant information on Notable's
life
- card shuffle
- board game depicting Notable's life
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VISUALS
- Cartoon caricatures of Notable and his or her
contemporaries/ competitors
- Mural depicting stages of his or her life.
- Portrait
- Art work
- Model of invention
- Device to demonstrate a mathematical Law.
- Diorama
- Graphic organiser, diagrammatic representation of a life or
biography
- Storyboard
- Powerpoint presentation on the Notable's contribution to
history
- Statistical survey, analysis
- Devise a commemorative postage stamp, medal, etc.
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- INTEGRATED
- Devise an internet interactive website
- Deliver an original dramatisation, play or monologue
highlighting a key moment in the Notable's life
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- EXPERIENTIAL
- Perform a notable's musical composition
- Re-enact a famous controversial debate the Notables was
involved in
- Dramatise an event: Columbus begs for three days; Marco
Polo meets the Grand Vizier.
- Debate issues in fame, heroism and eminence.
© G.
Smith 2000
Some Differentiated Outcomes of a Study of
Biography
6: Creating, generating, producing, planning, designing,
constructing:
- Infer from your interview/ research, what are the
crystallising moments / influences in the Notable's life.
- Predict discoveries the Notable might have made today.
- Hypothesise on mysterious events in the notable's life.
5: Evaluating, checking, critiquing, monitoring, judging:
- Disputate the value of biographies, autobiographies as means
of understanding the real person
- Debate the validity of autobiography as primary sources of
historical information
- Assess one (unofficial) biography among others on explicit
criteria you supply.
- Journal your follow-through research on a disputed fact or
assumption in a biography
4: Analysing, differentiating, organising, attributing:
- Chart to analyse different biographies of the same
notable.
- Compare different biographies for their different purposes
(e.g., entertainment, ego-boost, propagandist, cathartic,
community defining, apologia, etc.).
3: Applying, executing, implementing:
- Construct a timeline from one biography
- Outline the Notable's personal philosophy on life.
- Storyboard a screenplay for the biography.
- Supply a mind map of the biography
2: Understanding, interpreting, exemplifying, classifying,
summarising, inferring, comparing, explaining:
- Review a biography
- Background a biographer's perspective
- Define key terms used in a biography.
1: Remembering , recalling, locating, retrieving, naming:
- Recall salient points/ stages in a biography
- Recount events described in a biography..
- Read aloud pertinent selections from a biography.
- © G.
Smith 2001
- Using the Lorin Anderson (19899) A Revision
of Bloom's Taxonomy in M. Pohl Leaning to Think Thinking to
Learn Melbourne: HBE 2000.
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Last revised 13/12/2006