KAS ELA Standard: RL.5.9

One painting of a bridge. Three robots. Who wrote it best?

Let’s encode some secret messages with a cipher that was actually used during the American Civil War!

What if your students rewrote Dickens in the style of Hemingway and vice versa?

Have you ever noticed that some stories have awfully similar problems? What if we looked for the most unusual way of solving a repeating problem?

One artist, two paintings. Notice details, compare, synthesize, then find a parallel in another creator’s work.

What if one character dressed up as another for Halloween? Would the Cat in the Hat pick Captain Jack Sparrow, because they’re both chaotic yet good-natured people? Would Elsa dress up as The Ice King since they are both lonely?

What if Kylo Ren wrote a love letter to Abe Lincoln or the Sahara Desert wrote one to the Moon?