Question: How can you
help students think visually?
Answer: Have them
summarize an entire novel by drawing a picture [or a diagram]. The author, Jim
Burke, summarizes Dostoevsky’s novel Crime
and Punishment, by drawing a circle with a large black dot outside the
circle. That illustration becomes the focus of a discussion about the novel,
its dot outside and how it summarizes the novel. Interesting image.
Comment: I think the dot outside the circle as a
summary for Crime and Punishment is an interesting technique for helping
students visualize and summarize a novel. Adds another technique to methods for
critical thinking. RayS.
Title: “the Shape of
Ideas.” Spark. Jim Burke. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy
(October 2011), 155.
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