Pinterest Vision Board Challenge and Other Thoughts

So this challenge was right up my alley, because I started working for real from home in April of this year, and my home office is kind of sad. It's also the guest bedroom, so it just feels cramped, and I never had the time to get any of it decorated, so I loved being able to make a vision board that is my perfect home office. This was a really cool experience, and while I was creating it, I just thought about so many practical applications that it could have in an ELA classroom for middle and high school students. Like the potential to explore tone, mood, and characterization is kind of unparalleled! How cool would it be, after reading a poem, for example, to have students create a board that captured the mood of the poem. Or, as part of exploring characterization, have students create a vision board showing what they think the character's bedroom looks like, for example. Then they could write about it, and use text evidence to justify why they made the decisions they made. This would also be a really cool way for them to think about the kinds of decisions that authors make, and what it really means to create believable, relatable characters. Anyway, kind of went on a tangent there, but it's a fun thought and it's something I wish I had done in the classroom. I know it would be a challenge to keep track of all their login information (which was always the biggest barrier for me) or to even get the district to approve Pinterest in the first place, but it's a cool idea. Feel free to explore my board! 

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