{"id":3428,"date":"2015-01-31T13:31:29","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T13:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/?p=2927"},"modified":"2015-01-31T13:31:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-31T13:31:29","slug":"wheel-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/display-work\/wheel-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Wheel of Life&#8221; Template"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A simple, visual way to evaluate historical and literary characters from more than one perspective!<\/p>\n<p>Students choose a fictional or historical character to evaluate and write their name into the template.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Decide on at least 4, but up to 8, ways to rate your historical\/fictional character (e.g. loyalty, friendliness, intelligence, determination, tolerance \u2013 this is a discussion in itself!)<\/li>\n<li>Place a dot on each line to rate your character for your categories (10 being the best score).<\/li>\n<li>Join up the dots to produce a \u201cWheel of Life\u201d for your character.<\/li>\n<li>Explain your choice in the table overleaf.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Taking it further<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Arrange students into a continuum line, with the most positive interpretations at one end, and the most negative at the other.<\/p>\n<p>Print off the wheels of different students and arrange them in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/diamond-diagrams-for-prioritisation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">diamond 9 diagram<\/a> as a classroom display piece.<\/p>\n<p>Create a &#8216;physical&#8217; wheel of life by arranging eight students on the playground &#8211; each step outwards from the centre of the circle (up to a maximum of 10) for each of the categories of analysis.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Download<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Wheel_of_Life.doc\">Wheel of Life Template <\/a>(.doc).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A simple, visual way to evaluate historical and literary characters from more than one perspective! 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Decide on at least 4, but up to 8, ways to rate your historical\/fictional character (e.g. loyalty, friendliness, intelligence, determination, tolerance \u2013 this is&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/display-work\/wheel-of-life\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":3290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,195,198,199,211],"tags":[294,348,360],"class_list":["post-3428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-display-work","category-downloads","category-individuals","category-interpretations","category-understanding","tag-life","tag-template","tag-wheel","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5136,"url":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/uncategorized\/new-wheel-of-life-online-template\/","url_meta":{"origin":3428,"position":0},"title":"*NEW* &#8220;Wheel of Life&#8221; Online Template","author":"Russel Tarr","date":"October 16, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"*NEW* \"Wheel of Life\" Online Template - try it out and let me know what you think! 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