ABSTRACT
Teaching the archetypes of story as a psychological, metaphorical mirror can help students understand how story operates on several levels. Personifying aspects of any curriculum helps students build strong connections to the material. Because many students struggle with reading, supporting the reading can advance reading skills while learning the content. Some writing activities help students focus in on the essential questions of a course. After writing, students partner up and read each other's showing passages. Writing in the classroom becomes an opportunity to embrace the constructivist model of learning. Sometimes, students simply need to have their background knowledge extended through direct instruction. When teacher' lesson plans call for lecture, remember to build in opportunities to stop, write, share, and discuss, with the opportunity to revise notes. Sometimes, students simply need to have their background knowledge extended through direct instruction. In Adler's chart, this is the passing on of organized knowledge.
