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These hexagonal thinking templates help you to easily design a student-led activity that emphasizes critical thinking skills, synthesis, discussion, analysis, vocabulary, and more! Hexagonal thinking is a retrieval and connection strategy. The goal is for students to make a generalization about linked ideas or terms. Students are given (or self-generate) several relevant ideas, concepts, feelings, images, terms, etc., make connections, receive quick teacher feedback, and explain why and how.
There is no right or wrong answer in this activity, so long as students are able to justify and explain their connections. You may want to increase the rigor by requiring textual citations to support these connections. You can also have students “re-shuffle” to find a new way of connecting the hexagons.
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Here’s what you’ll receive in this resource:
★ Honeycomb Hexagonal Thinking Template (1 Page) if you want a NO prep experience. Students will fill-in terms, quotes, etc. onto the hexagons, making sure they connect.
★ Hexagonal Thinking Templates (2 Pages) if you wish to have students create and cut their own cards. Or, you can write-in your own terms before copying for students.
★ Teacher Notes (2 Pages) so that you have instructions and tips for using this assignment with students .
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Explore other hexagonal thinking resources for popular texts below! :)
Middle School Books
- A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
- Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
- Counting by 7's by Holly Goldberg Sloan
- Divergent by Veronica Roth
- Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
- Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
- Ghost by Jason Reynolds
- Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Ground Zero by Alan Gratz
- Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
- Holes by Louis Sachar
- Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
- Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
- Monster by Walter Dean Myers
- Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt
- Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper
- Refugee by Alan Gratz
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
- Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
- Tangerine by Edward Bloor
- The Benefits of Being an Octopus by Ann Braden
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
- The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
- The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
- The Diary of Anne Frank (Diary of a Young Girl) by Anne Frank
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
- The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
- Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
- Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
- The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
- When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed
- Wonder by R.J. Palacio
High School Novel Study
Growing Up & Finding One's Self
- Beartown by Fredrik Backman
- Chaos Theory by Nic Stone
- Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
- Dumplin' by Julie Murphy
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
- Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
- Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles
- Paper Towns by John Green
- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Stolen by Lucy Christopher
- Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
- The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
- The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
- This Is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankl
- Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Diverse Fiction
- All American Boys by Jason Reynolds
- All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
- American Street by Ibi Zoboi
- And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
- As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Boy 21 by Matthew Quick
- Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
- Chaos Theory by Nic Stone
- Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
- Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
- Dear Martin by Nic Stone
- Every Falling Star by Sungju Lee
- Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri
- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
- I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika Sánchez
- In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
- Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
- Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
- Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
- Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult
- Mexican WhiteBoy by Matt de la Peña
- Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
- Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
- The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
- Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
- The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- They Poured Fire On Us From the Sky by Alephonsion Deng
- We Are Not From Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez
- When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
- With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
Nonfiction / Memoir
- 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
- Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
- I Am Malala by Christina Lamb and Malala Yousafzai
- Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
- Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- The Color of Water by James McBride
- The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
- The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
- Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
- Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Classics
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- As I Lay Dying By William Faulkner
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- Slaughterhouse-5 by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Dystopian / Sci Fi Fiction / Fantasy / Magical Realism
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Anthem by Ayn Rand
- Blindness by José Saramago
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Feed by M.T. Anderson
- Kindred by Octavia Butler
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
- Scythe by Neal Shusterman
- Station 11 by Emily St. John Mandel
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
- The Maze Runner by James Dashner
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
- Unwind by Neal Shusterman
Drama / Epic
- A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare
- A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
- Antigone by Sophocles
- Hamlet by Shakespeare
- Julius Caesar by Shakespeare
- Macbeth by Shakespeare
- Othello by Shakespeare
- The Crucible by Arthur Miller
- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
- The Odyssey by Homer
Historical Fiction / Philosophy
- A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- A Separate Peace by John Knowles
- Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- Sophie's World by Jostein Gaardner
- Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
- The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
- Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin
Short Stories / Essays
- "Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau
- "Rules of the Game" by Amy Tan
- "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut
- "I Have a Dream" by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- "Letter From Birmingham Jail" by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
- "The Tell Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
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Benefits of hexagonal thinking resources include:
★ High engagement = happy students and happy teacher
★ Cross-categorical thinking
★ Higher-level analysis, synthesis of details from the text
★ Fluid integration of ELA skills
★ Productive use of class time that is maximized for student learning
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