All About Me - D&C Icons Pennant Banner! {GATE Back to School!}

Color your own “All About Me” Depth and Complexity Pennants! This is a fun and creative way to apply Depth and Complexity Icons and a student-centered approach to decorating your classroom for Back to School Night, Open House, or all year long!

A unique approach to your Student of the Week projects! Students enjoy completing this creative and fun project as a wonderful “Get to know you” activity in the beginning of the year (or any time of the year)! Perfect for decorating your GATE classroom!

Students share details about themselves while applying Prompts of Depth and Complexity, color in their pennants with markers or crayons, cut out the pennants, and cooperatively create a classroom “All About Us” pennant banner!

*Background Knowledge/Training on Dr. Sandra Kaplan’s Depth and Complexity Prompts recommended.

Product Includes:

1) 1 Reproducible Pennant – make one for each student in your class!
2) Instructions on how to assemble the pennant banner with sample photos.
* The pennants are focused on these Depth and Complexity Icons: Big Idea, Patterns, Details, Multiple Perspectives, Unanswered Questions

What You Will Need To Make Your Classroom Banner:
- Blank Cardstock Paper
- Hole Punch
- String of your choice

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All About Posters with Depth and Complexity - Me, Family, Class, and Book

More Depth and Complexity Resources:
Depth and Complexity Student Note Taking Cards
Depth and Complexity Graphic Organizers - Task Cards for Common Core Literature

Depth and Complexity Literature Units:
The Tale of Despereaux Common Core Literature Study - Graphic Organizers and D&C Icons
Depth and Complexity for Beginners - Lesson Plans for Introducing D and C Icons

For the Third Grade Teacher:
3rd Grade HM Theme 1 - Depth and Complexity Frames {The Lost and Found, The Ballad of Mulan, The Waterfall}
3rd Grade HM Theme 2 - Depth and Complexity Frames {The Keeping Quilt, Anthony Reynoso: Born to Rope, The Talking Cloth, Dancing Rainbows}
3rd Grade HM Theme 3 - Depth and Complexity Frames {Dogzilla, Mysterious Giant of Barletta, Raising Dragons, Garden of Abdu Gasazil}
3rd Grade HM Theme 4 - Depth and Complexity Frames {Nights of the Pufflings, Seal Surfer, Two Days in May}
3rd Grade HM Theme 5 - Depth and Complexity Frames {Across the Wide Dark Sea, Yunmi and Halmoni's Trip, Trapped by the Ice!}
3rd Grade HM Theme 6 - Depth and Complexity Frames {Pepita Talks Twice, Poppa's New Pants, Ramona Quimby, Age 8}


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