COGNITIVE MAP (Plus One)

INTRODUCTION

Concept mapping (CM) is a teaching and learning strategy that establishes a bridge between how people learn knowledge and sensible learning. Students need to have sufficient foundation and a critical thinking about CM and the relations between different concepts. Concept mapping promises to be useful in enhancing meaningful learning and students conceptual understanding. Concept mapping helps meaningful learning in several ways. It is an activity that provides the student with an opportunity to organize, summarize, analyze and evaluate many different ideas. Thus, it promotes the development of critical thinking skills, which can then be used for other meaningful learning activities.

 This assignment contains a concept map for Plus One students based on the chapters 'Gooseberries' and 'To Sleep' from the Unit  'Harmony of Life'.

PREPARATION

The process of concept mapping involves three major steps:

• Step 1: List key concepts/terms related to the topic
• Step 2: Build up concepts to elaborate key concepts
• Step 3: Identify links between concepts

The chapters taken for concept mapping were Gooseberries and To Sleep. "Gooseberries," demonstrates how obsessions become self consuming and harmful for oneself and others, distorting one's conception of reality. “To Sleep” tells us the importance of having sound sleep in our life. The Poet is very confident that sleep will help us to remain mentally and physically fit. He wants sleep to visit him and bless him. Each chapter contained sub themes too, like happiness, meaningful life, suffering, sleeplessness, etc. These concepts were listed down and links were identified between these concepts. Keeping all these in mind, an outline was created and based on the outline, the concept map was drafted.

BENEFITS

There are several benefits of using concept maps.

A concept map:

• utilizes the full range of the left and right hemispheres of the brain.
• helps memory recall.
• helps to clarify and structure ideas.
• helps students see relationship between ideas, concepts or authors.
• aids in developing higher-level thinking skills (create, analyze, evaluate).
• encourages students to think creatively about the subject.

 Outline

Topic : HARMONY OF LIFE

Key Concepts, Sub themes:

GOOSEBERRIES

Short Story

Author - Anton Chekhov

Setting - in late 19th-century Russia, just after                        Russia's feudal system was dismantled .

Plot - "Gooseberries," demonstrates how                  obsessions become selfconsuming and harmful for oneself and others, distorting one's conception of reality

Characters - Ivan Ivanych, Nikolai Ivanych, Alekhin, Burkin, Pelageya

Themes - Meaningful life, Happiness, Suffering, Social injustice

Title significance - The story is titled 'Gooseberries' because life is very much like gooseberries. Gooseberries are sour and sweet. Similarly life too is sour (bitter) and sweet.

Topic: TO SLEEP

Key Concepts, Sub themes:

Poem

Sonnet

Author - William Wordsworth

Mood of the poem - hushed and gentle

Plot - “To Sleep” tells us the importance of having sound sleep in our life. The Poet is very confident that sleep will help us to remain mentally and physically fit. He wants sleep to visit him and bless him.

Theme - Sleeplessness

Poetic devices - Alliteration, Assonance, Oxymoron, Metaphor

Rhyming scheme - abba,abba, cdc, dcd

Message - “To Sleep” tells us the importance of having sound sleep in our life.

CONCLUSION

The concept map, based on the unit, HARMONY OF LIFE, the chapters, 'GOOSEBERRIES' and 'TO SLEEP', contains detailed information on the key concepts, and sub themes. The map is prepared in Mindomo App, which is an online design software. The concept map can help students as well as teachers grasp the material along with the links and connections. It can help visual learners to understand the concept easily. It can help students see the “big-picture” and visualize relationships. It will help those process and store large amounts of information.