Our world is becoming increasingly visual. Our newest textbooks contain highly visual content from illustrations to activities on reading the picture and other visual literacy skills.
Students illustrate poems from recognized poets collected and centered around a theme.
Students write poems of their own on the same theme and illustrate them. The illustration are often abstract symbolizations of the poems meaning. Illustration are of a construction method, not just elements of drawing. This involves the critical thinking skills of synthesis and evaluation. Students select events from their life to represent visually on a timeline.