Cognitive Map

 A cognitive map is a visual organization and representation of knowledge. It shows each major points and ideas and the relationships among them. It provide information about each concept, idea and their inter relationships. It helps learners to understand a concept by connecting each and every relationship easily.

This assignment contains cognitive maps for plus one and plus two students, based on the units “The Sleep” and “Match Box”.

The poem “To Sleep” from the unit 5 ‘Harmony of Life’ written by William Wordsworth, who is known as the high priest of Nature, is an exquisite poem that presents to us some of the finest sights, sounds and movements of Nature. The major concepts like the poet, type of poem, theme and poetic devices are identified. Then the details regarding the poet including sub concepts like details about Wordsworth, his theme and works are included. Then in the next main concept type of poem is mentioned as sonnet. In the poetic devices, all the poetic devices like personification, rhyme scheme, metaphor, Onomatopoeia, Imagery, oxymoron and hyperbole are identified and in the specific concepts every detail regarding these poetic devices from the poem are included. Then the major theme is ‘the power of sleep’ which is also included in the cognitive map.

The story “Match Box” in the unit 1 ‘Flights of Freedom’ written by Ashapurna Debi describes about the unhealthy relationships between husband and wife in an Indian family. It is a unit which describes about women empowerment and the chapter explains about how women are like a matchbox which is quiet and calm but it has the power to burn anyone who interferes her privacy and questions her self - respect.

 The cognitive map includes every main concepts, sub concepts and specific concepts in the chapter Matchbox. The main concepts include author, character, themes and activities. The details about author include her image, date of birth, awards, etc. The characters were exposed and there character sketch is briefly specified. In the main concept theme, the creator has included women empowerment and unhealthy marital relationships in India. In the major activities, the activities to improve speaking, reading and writing are explained and each activity is specified in the map. The cognitive map also included an animated video which shows the story ‘Match Box’ in an interesting way which will attract students.