Place each of your strips in a section, explaining your thinking to your group.
After a group discussion, you may decide to change the placement of the
strip in the Venn Diagram. Work together as a group to place all the names.
You may have a name or two that you cannot, as a group, decide where to
place—if you’ve discussed it and still cannot come to agreement, place that
name outside of the three circles for now.
Facilitation Note: Guide students as they work in groups. If a disagreement
occurs about where to place a name, you may need to ask some prompting
or clarifying questions. It is okay, though, to not have agreement and to
leave the name off to the side. Perhaps later in the lesson they will come to
agreement on its placement.
Gallery Walk: This is an opportunity for learners to confirm or contradict their
thinking about the placement of names that they worked on collaboratively.
You can have students tape down the names into the sections before the
Gallery Walk or after the Gallery Walk, when changes can be made if a
group decides collaboratively.
Teacher Talk: We are now going to take some time to view the other groups’
work, to perhaps confirm or contradict your group’s thinking around the
impact a person had. When I say, “Go,” you will quietly travel as a group
around the classroom to view other groups’ work. See if there are some of
the same names and if their placement within the circles is similar to what
your group came up with. Remember to respect the work of others and talk
with your group members about what you are observing as you travel.
Facilitation Note: Allow a few minutes for groups to “visit” other groups’
work. Guide them in their observations and help them make connections
between what they are observing and what their own group did.
Teacher Talk: Return to your own Venn Diagram. If after seeing other groups’
work, you’d like to make a change or two, then as a group you need to come
to consensus. If you have any names on the outside of the circles, maybe
now your group is prepared to slot them into a section.
Looking at your own group’s Venn Diagram and the twenty-four or so names,
where are most names placed? There are seven sections: Self, Others,
Society, Intersections between two sections and finally all three intersecting
in the middle.
Facilitation Note: Have each group share the names that were placed in
the middle, the area for people displaying Perseverance that had a direct
impact not only on self but others and society. Record these names on the
Venn Diagram on chart paper.
Black Canadian Curriculum – Intermediate – ETFO – 2014