LESSON 4 ORGANIZING through I D E A S GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
USING GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS - a series of visual tools – map and charts – used to organize knowledge and ideas. It may be used to represent and show relationships between various ideas and may also be used to analyze and understand a text more deeply. MOST GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS Venn diagram Time line Spider map Describing wheel KWS chart Four-column chart ladder 5Ws chart Sandwich chart Inverted triangle
VENN DIAGRAM 1
TIME LINE 2
SPIDER MAP 3
FOUR-COLUMN CHART 4
DESCRIBING/IDEA WHEEL 5
KWS CHART What I know What I want to know Possible Sources 6
LADDER 7
5Ws What happened? Who was there? Why did it happen? When did it happen? Where did it happen? 8
100 words a Think of your memoir. Choose the best memory that you have in your entire life.
Inverted Triangle 10 General (broad) Specific Detail Most Specific Detail (Narrow)
Nena (Irma Adlawan ) is admired in her community for her dedication as a teacher for 32 years. She eventually decides to retire and put up her own business to spend more time with her family. However, her dream of having a better life is instantly taken away after her business partner takes all the money she has. On the verge of giving up, she finds a high paying job as a caregiver in the US, hoping to regain everything she lost. But things do not go as planned as Nena learns that the person who recruits her is a human trafficker and forces her to work as a house help for an abusive Filipino family. She gets maltreated, is underpaid, and even made to sleep with the dogs by her employers, putting her in constant misery. Determined to escape her horrible situation, she then meets a young American boy who she hopes could be her way to finally break free from her ill-fated life. How will Nena survive the life she is in?
PASSPORT
BIOGRAPHY a personal account of an individual’s life. AUTOBIOGRAPHY is someone’s life story written by another person
- it is a factual account of a person’s life. MEMOIR - is a French word which means “ memory ” or “ reminiscence ” - involves a selected portion or a significant event in a person’s life ACTIVITY (10 minutes) Choose an important event in your life and write a short memoir about yourself. Include reflections about that life event.