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TIMELINE: SHOWING CHRONOLOGY The Timeline helps learners organize events from a text into time order. It can be useful in summarizing a text or in discussing historical events. Target Learning Strategies: reviewing key ideas and details, creating a drawing, elaboration Lesson Stage: Beyond Timeline Dates, ages or other time divisions Events Language Levels: All Timeline of Events in “Mini Mountain,” by Kirsten Oldroyd Age Events 9 Adventure summer camp - Success on climbing day Going to climbing gym after camp 10 Progressing at climbing gym from level 5.6 to level 5.9 Nicknamed “Mini Mountain” 11 Enters Advanced Junior Program Becoming a leader 12 Left climbing 13 Family troubles: divorce move Living close to gym. Preparing for junior tryouts 14 Being powerful, confident “Mini Mountain” Goal: Top 10 Climber 18 and under. Procedure On the board, demonstrate creating timeline with your school schedule, or another familiar time sequence. Help learners develop their own timeline of something recent, e.g., events in the school year. Explain that learners can use the timeline to outline events in the order they happened in a text. Example: In the example, students have outlined the events in “Mini Mountain,” by Kirstin Oldroyd, by making a timeline according to Oldroyd’s age at the time of various events. Vocabulary Exploration and Study