ANTICIPATORY SETS
Anticipatory sets are a crucial part of a successful lesson. They take your lesson from silver to gold! The three main goals of an anticipatory set are to capture interest, prepare brains and focus learning. Anticipatory sets should be fairly short and give students a glimpse of what exciting things you will be exploring in that unit or lesson. There are endless possibilities for anticipatory sets from video clips to quotes to cartoons. Anticipatory sets are the perfect opportunity to communicate your excitement to your students and get them prepared for the day!
My "Fav Five"
1. Involvement to Engage
By involving students in an activity right at the beginning of a lesson you will capture their attention and interest. It is also a great opportunity to introduce students to some of the big picture/concept of the lesson or unit. For my involvement anticipatory set, I engaged students by having them serve as assembly line workers making paper airplanes.
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2. Quotes to Activate Prior Knowledge I love this set for history. Showing a quote and asking students to think about what it means and its significance is a great way to get them thinking right away. I would have their share with their elbow partner, or something similar, to get all students engaged.
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4. Video to Capture Attention
Video clips are a great way to capture attention. Students will perk up even at the slightest opportunity to watch videos in school. Not only could I capture their attention, I could use videos as a visual communication of what we will be learning/discussing that day.
5. Art to Get Them ThinkingArt to Get Them Thinking - Showing a piece of art and then asking students to either discuss or write about where its from, what they see, its significance is a great way to get their brains moving and engage them with the material. I also love bringing other disciplines into history and using art as an anticipatory set is a great way to do that!
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20 Quotes For the Historian's Classroom
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
John F. Kennedy
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
Ambrose Bierce
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
John F. Kennedy
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
Jackie Robinson
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Winston Churchill
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Mahatma Gandhi
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Albert Einstein
[A] ny fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it. - Oscar Wilde
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
Joseph Stalin
The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.
Buddha
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
Dalai Lama
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
Nelson Mandela
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
John F. Kennedy
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
Ambrose Bierce
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
John F. Kennedy
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
Jackie Robinson
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Winston Churchill
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Mahatma Gandhi
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Albert Einstein
[A] ny fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it. - Oscar Wilde
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
Joseph Stalin
The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.
Buddha
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
Dalai Lama
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
Nelson Mandela
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln
Student Interest Survey
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By giving students my interest inventory I will be more aware of what they like and makes them tick. That will help me to create more effective anticipatory sets.
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