Febuary 23rd and 24th

In this lesson the students were asked to fill in a map of Mexico that depicted Aztec culture. I was surprised to see how many students had retained information seen in the movie. The students were working on a large plain map of México where they were asked to fill in cultural information about the Aztecs. I asked the student to list some main food items of the Aztecs, while also listing representations of the Aztecs (i.e. agriculture, music, religion, landscape, etc.) I told the students that I would be grading these maps, which held them accountable for the assignment. I was happy to see that many of the students put effort into this assignment and I encouraged them to go above and beyond my expectations. While the students were working on this assignment, I met one on one with the students to talk about their grades on a previous assignment about the movie on the Aztecs. I first talked to the students to see if they understood what they were to do in their current assignment, and then went on to talk about the previous assignment with them. This previous assignment was a graphic organizer (that was graded as an informal assessment, on effort, not content) that the students were to fill out while watching a video.

This graphic organizer, I handed back to the students because I felt that having an extra resource to refer to while creating their maps. As I have been receiving their maps, they seem that thy have gained a great deal of information about the Aztecs while finding much of the information very interesting.