Keeping with the theme of this week we will be using another Kagan Learning Strategy to review our class notes before we begin our class lesson today. Today we will be using an activity called Circle the Sage in order to review the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments. Here’s how it works…

• First the teacher identifies students that are the answers/concepts behind the content being presented…for my class we will be using 6 students.
• These students are then assigned to a group of 2-4 students and teacher their information to the entire group.
• After each sage is finished, everything then returns to their seats and people that were not selected as a sage are asked to explain the content to the class.

The idea with this activity is to use experts to explain to students in a small group setting. Not only does it create a small group setting, but it allows students to use their peers as a source of information.

Mr. McClung