Jigsaw Discussions and posters

I paired my students and gave each pair an article about a certain aspect of colonial times. The students read through the article. I had the students section a paper into interesting facts, gross or weird facts, something new or different to them. The students went back and wrote down facts from their article that they thought students in their class would want to know or learn about their article. Each pair was given a poster paper, wrote their title at the top, and began writing and illustrating their article with their facts. After the posters were finished, pairs took turns sharing and discussing information from their poster/article to the class.