Indiana ELA Standard: 2.W.4.c

What’s going on in this painting? Who is that guy? What’s his job? And where’s his other boot?

Aristotle noted that positive traits and negative traits are often the same thing, but just in different amounts. The right amount is a virtue, but too much or too little and it’s a vice.

We tell students to ‘show, not tell’ — but that advice is useless until they experience the difference. This lesson makes it click.