Description
American author, Harper Lee is a wonderful choice for a Women’s History Month biography study or during a To Kill A Mockingbird novel study. This Harper Lee Women’s History research activity is creative and filled with opportunities for differentiation. The biography, timeline, growth mindset, and online research allows your students to take visual notes using the eye-catching sketchnotes! In this teaching resource, you will receive the 8.5×11 page and 16×20 poster.
Harper Lee, was an American author widely known for To Kill a Mockingbird, published in 1960.
INCLUDES:
★Sketchnotes
– gray scale, with lines, space for notes
– BIOGRAPHY POSTER (4 8.5×11 sheets required)
– 8.5×11 version
★Teacher Instructions for biography timeline, philosophy, background on sketchnotes and the build-a-poster assembly.
★The CCSS standards
Sketchnotes are creative, hands-on, auditory, personal, and brain-friendly fun! If you love interactive notebooks you’ll love this differentiation strategy! Get this activity as a PDF download for printing or upload the PDF to your favorite note-taking app like Notability, a GOOGLE Chrome extension, or Microsoft One Note -all really versatile for a tech-infused lesson.
I really love how a concept can be mapped out with visuals like with interactive notebooks but without the cutting. Sketchnotes help my students’ memory and recalling skills -visual notes, pictures, symbols, sequence, color, and frames, and fonts.
Sketchnotes are an inspiring and logical way to engage in visual note-taking from direct and student-centered instruction. Sketchnotes can be used for:
★Note taking
★Auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learners
★Encourages creativity
★Organizing thoughts
★Studying and memorization
★Gaining insight on complex subjects
★Jogging your creativity
★Visually appealing presentation of information
★Allows students to discover their own style
Created by Danielle Knight, © Study All Knight, The Knight Stuff, LLC