​ Today I have used hexagons to create a timeline for English B set book- ‘Machines like me’ by Ian McEwan (a highly recommended read by the way!) It was a really successful lesson experience, with lots of discussion, individual and group work-one that every student participated in and benefitted from. More importantly, this procedure seems universal enough to be applied to any set reading, especially for plot summary. The steps are as follows: 1. A warm-up discussion on the idea of timeline- what it is for? how to pick events for the timeline? how to present them in an effective and consistent way?  2. Once the model of timeline is agreed on, students are given a part of the book to work with- in my case each of 10 students got a chapter, and that covered the whole book, but it can be pairs doing a 3-chapter part etc, whatever works for you. 3. Students are supposed to spend 15-20 minutes on their respective parts and produce 5-10 hexagons with sentences written on them representi...