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Words that make meaning and pictures that sweep up emotions make persuasion manageable. Using a growth mindset allows room for consideration because it makes them feel good or supportive of their community. Heroic figures often affect society by gestures or words of advice. In particular, these persuasive posters are inscribed for independent writing, supporting the development of arguable positions. Like the poster above, the message indicates that sparing time and blood can help someone who requires immediate blood infusion. If I utilized this strategy for my reading comprehension lesson, I would have the students make a poster persuading the dangers or arguably benefits regarding Sarah's unemptied garbage bin. This allows the students to pick a side they think is right and wrong.

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Just as there are two ends to a bridge, learning happens with cooperative and independent teaching. For any grade, collaborative work, such as the collaborative report, creates an environment where the group supports one another in areas of weakness or helps develop a strong sense of confidence. Moreover, with nonfiction writing, only plotting what was observed is considered fact and statistical data. This also lessens the burden on some layers of the assignment because each team has a role to play and voice their findings. As an example, the Lit Circle requires each position to have responsibilities and obligations to make sense of the book from different points of view and add additional comments that can support the original idea. This allows for one focus on one role, which becomes a whole when the team rejoins to collaborate on ideas that were researched independently. This brings out both independent and collaborative learning.

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Drawing seems to follow everyone regardless of age, even if it consists of doodling on the side of a line paper during a lecture. With boredom crying out as each line and curve is drawn on a piece of paper, teachers can use that habit and create an epic and historical portfolio of each student with the "Me" Quilts. The students can design the themes for each piece, whether they want to include their family, hobby, interest, or even dislike. As I learned at the beginning of the class, motivation can come in different forms, such as providing choices. The students can choose to write, draw, glue, or even carve out however they like and desire to decorate the quilt. Personally, my family each decorated a wooden piece to a frame that signified our passion, strength, and experiences. Looking back on that experience, I saw the diverse ways to exchange gratitude and love for each other as a family. The "Me" Quilt can show silent exchanges of respect of culture and other personal identity.

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Just as a vine of potato plants has many dangling potatoes attached, one activity can have multiple attachments that make it valuable, reliable, and suitable for any learning experience. With guidance from Dr. Madhuri, my Reading Comprehension Lesson Plan was born and relived with the participation of diverse students. The beauty of narrative devices is the additional encryptions that make the writing more relatable and understandable by making it more vibrant. The emphasis on exaggeration (hyperbole) within the poem "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out" by Shel Silverstein made students connect the terms and emotions that were embedded in the poem to come alive and true with the use of vivid drawings of the stanza they were assigned to. Teaching narrative devices will benefit the students through their growth in skills that ignite powerful imagery that sends out messages gained by experiences. Using comparative language ensures a connection with synonyms and antonyms that build strong indicators of vocabulary comprehension.

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The openness to various angles of viewpoint can alter the stereotypical bias perception that one cannot be defined as another, just like the picture, which directs the attention to allow experimentation on different points of view and determine how it can alter the story. Again, referring back to my Reading Comprehension Lesson Plan, the closure of the activity was a letter to Sarah, the character of the story, about the problems that the community faces with unattended garbage that became a nuisance and left people to sanity, leaving them no choice but to move out. That way, students look from the perspective of the neighbors who could not and would not withstand the odor that tortured even their slightest breath. Looking back, I began to wonder about the student's view through the lens of the character Sarah and her excuses for not throwing the trash out. Giving them a choice between two points of view might have made the discussion and interaction more exciting and gruesome.

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Every learning starts with motivation. More often than it should, students lose interest in writing since "It takes too long" or "My hand hurts." This made me believe that the students need a variety of different techniques that can be used in the comfort of their hands. From my experiences with a fifth-grade classroom full of action-hungry students, simple yet deep integrated learning is profoundly the best option to go about the day. Hence, the Character Map (Figure 6-1) caught my full undivided attention. When I introduced poetry to the students, I was guided to provide pictures, audio, and a little fun to the students to get them engaged in the learning. But, as I reflect back on the lesson, I wish I provided the students with an extra step using the Character Map, where they can inscribe details from the poem to get a better outline of organizing their letter to the character. This strategy can allow the students to write a letter that contains more than just everyday words, but rather descriptive vivid language and emotions to back up their point of view.

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Story Board (p. 129) - This poster is REAL!

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The Product: Writing To Demonstrate Learning

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The Product: Writing To Demonstrate Learning

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What I love about drawing is that there are infinite ways to explain a word, phrase, or idea that cannot seem to fit into either a word or a phrase. Although I have used the story board strategy, the formatting was different. I used the concept of creating a poster that depicted the words in the stanza of the poem to drawings. The neon poster on top is a work from a group of students who went above and beyond the directions and made a script for the stanza. I know right? Who would have thought that? Very proud. Even better, each student had a character to play in the script they created and did a reader's theater. With the opportunity, the students uniquely bring life to the activity and express an understanding of the standard and learning objectives their way. I was able to see cooperation, motivation, and strategic production with eyes full of pride and thrill.

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The fantastic trait of a stimulated journal is how students write from the point of view of the historical figure they are learning about. Personally, a historical figure for me is my beloved grandma, who is still breathing and walking on this very Earth for more than 95 years and still going! I can only imagine her experiences of war and hunger with my limited knowledge. The stories she tells about her life or death escape from the North to the South territories bring fear and tears; however, looking through the lens from my grandma's point of view brings hope and relief of the escape with her family. Also, there is a layer of anger and guilt due to the split of her family and tragic deaths. Using simulated journals, students can rediscover the emotions and actions of the person of interest and recount the experiences through expressions in words and drawings.

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Assessment Tools: A Writer's Revision Checklist and A Reader's Revision Checklist (p. 264-5)

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I find checklist useful when writing essays or research papers. The questions guide the writer to reread or recheck for clarity of position in the beginning, look back for the three pieces of evidence presented in the paper, and the conclusion that calls for action. Simple bullet points help pinpoint specific areas needing special attention and add details underneath. For one of my core classes, my professor provides weekly checklists that ensure all lecture videos are seen to activate background knowledge, then gets into readings that support or deflect a position, and then provides room for open discussion about personal or factual interpretations of the topic. When using this strategy in a classroom, I would ensure that the students are paired, looking over their papers, and prompt questions that ignite a discussion that the students can add to their papers. Most often, students do not go back to reread their reports, which leaves holes in their writing and simple errors that can be avoided with just another glance. This can also be a test-taking strategy!

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The Venn Diagram is the most simplified graphic organizer. Adding more subjects to the chart makes it more complicated; however, comparing two events or types becomes quite simple. Like at the beginning of class, each got in pairs and found similarities and differences. Quite surprisingly, the randomly selected teams each had entirely unexpected similarities in place of work and jobs of family members, to name a few. Also, the T-chart is similar in usage but divided into two sections for more depictions of details with contrasting motives.

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I have always vouched that learning logs are very effective for EL students when teaching unfamiliar vocabulary and concepts. Even for myself, visuals help me decipher unfamiliar words or concepts because I use my primary language as a resource. At times, I make the connection in my head as a thought and a guide. Then, labeling that picture to the English vocabulary makes it more suitable to get embedded in my funds of knowledge. Moreso, small groups have always helped me tremendously. It's rather a recheck or new learning based on my understanding of the concept or activity that I need to perform. It's like a gathering of voices that provides the puzzle pieces to my vague and scattered thoughts. This is why, learning logs provide guidance to EL students who need that extra explanation using their everyday BIC words.