ABSTRACT
Multimodality experience cannot be easily forgotten. One strategy to test this proposition and to deepen student understanding of literature and life is to have them be living visual organizers—that is, link themselves together conceptually. For instance, if the theme, or concept, being explored is freedom, one student stands in the middle of a circle representing the concept and others space themselves on the circumference as examples of freedom in different books or movies. The students then tell what their respective freedoms are from—freedom from fear, freedom from hunger, freedom from captivity, freedom from bullying, freedom from tyranny, etc. Their testimonials can include the paths to their freedom, the effects of the freedom, their feelings during the struggle, their advice to others similarly constrained.
