Visualizing: So Simple, Yet Complex

4 Steps to Visualizing1. Read the text. 2. Picture the information in your brain 3. Plan how to draw it on paper. 4. Draw and label the picture on paper.

Simple PracticeVisualize the animal described below.It has a long, oval-shaped body. It has a long neck and tail. The top of the neck, back, and tail are covered by a row of triangular-shaped plates. It’s head is shaped like a long triangle. It has big eyes, and eyebrows that stick out. It also has big nostrils. Its body is covered with scales. It has four short legs. At the end of each leg is a foot with five long toes. Each toe has a sharp claw at its end. It may be many different colors, but usually, they are green and yellow, or red and yellow.

Visualizing Takes Many Shapes

*Drawing a picture*Making a chart*Drawing a diagram*Making a “mind map”*Using a graphic organizer*Storyboarding

Why is Visualizing Important?

*Close reading and using visualization clues (imagery) can help to clarify complex concepts

*Tone*Mood*Author/Interpreter’s Purpose

*Visualizing to increase understanding can help the analyst to find evidence to support a claim

For Example:

What evidence can you find to support the claim:Windsurfing is a dangerous sport.

For Example:What evidence can you find to support the claim:

Windsurfing is a dangerous sport.1. The person is not

holding on to the surfboard.

2. There are lots of waves.

3. The wind is also making the seas rough.

Try It Out!

As we watch the following clip from Romeo and Juliet, try to find evidence that supports the following claim:

In this interpretation of Romeo and Juliet, the director is attempting to create a mood of sadness.

http://youtube.com/v/FHoaPLO6Zd8

Try It Out!

As we watch the following clip from Romeo and Juliet, try to find evidence that supports the following claim:

In this interpretation of Romeo and Juliet, the director is attempting to create a mood of love.

http://youtube.com/v/OZLVlajiihI

Try It Out!

As you read the following excerpt from Romeo and Juliet, use visualizing try to find evidence that disproves the following claim:

The apothecary that Romeo visits is well-off.

Process Step 1: Create a Visual:

*Drawing a picture

*Making a chart

*Drawing a diagram

*Making a “mind map”

*Using a graphic organizer

*Storyboarding

Step 2: Think about the claim: Do I agree or disagree?

Step 3: Respond to the claim (in writing)Draft a 5-8 sentence paragraph that…*Contains the claim (switch words to agree/disagree with it) *Find evidence to support your claim from your visual.*Citation for evidence

Try It Out!

As you read the following excerpt from Romeo and Juliet, use visualizing try to find evidence that disproves the following claim:

The apothecary that Romeo visits is well-off.

Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee to-night.Let's see for means: O mischief, thou art swiftTo enter in the thoughts of desperate men!I do remember an apothecary,--And hereabouts he dwells,--which late I notedIn tatter'd weeds, with overwhelming brows,Culling of simples; meagre were his looks,Sharp misery had worn him to the bones:And in his needy shop a tortoise hung,An alligator stuff'd, and other skinsOf ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelvesA beggarly account of empty boxes,

Green earthen pots, bladders and musty seeds,Remnants of packthread and old cakes of roses,Were thinly scatter'd, to make up a show.Noting this penury, to myself I said'An if a man did need a poison now,Whose sale is present death in Mantua,Here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him.'O, this same thought did but forerun my need;And this same needy man must sell it me.As I remember, this should be the house.Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.What, ho! apothecary!

On your own..

As you read the first section of your selected play, use visualizing try to find evidence that completes and supports the following claim:

Shakespeare creates a mood of ______ during the opening scenes of _________ (your play); I know this because _________, _____________, & ______________.

Process Step 1: Create a Visual:

*Drawing a picture

*Making a chart

*Drawing a diagram

*Making a “mind map”

*Using a graphic organizer

*Storyboarding

Step 2: Think about the claim: Do I agree or disagree?

Step 3: Respond to the claim (in writing)Draft a 5-8 sentence paragraph that…*Contains the claim (switch words to agree/disagree with it) *Find evidence to support your claim from your visual.*Citation for evidence