Exercise: Spider Diagrams

For this exercise I was asked to create four separate spider diagrams. One for each of the following words;

seaside, childhood, angry and festival.

I found the spider diagram for childhood the easiest to produce I guess because this covers quite a wide range of subjects, activities and memories. The word I found the most difficult to produce a spider diagram for was festival. I have limited experience of festivals therefore I was having to imagine the scenario. I also searched the Internet and dictionary for associated words.

I managed to get a couple of people to also do spider diagrams for these words. I found that a lot of the words they chose were quite similar. However, everyone has different experiences which meant that they also had words that I had not thought of, or different connotations of what these four words meant to them.

In order to complete my spider diagrams, I first started with words that I could think of for each subject. When I ran out of ideas, I then looked at the dictionary and thesaurus. To finish I used the internet to search the word, to see if anything different to what I had already come up with showed up in an image search. The thesaurus was probably the most helpful in order to come up with extra words and expand on the meaning of the words I already had.

My words are all written in black And I have selected a separate colour for each different person that contributed their spider diagrams.