This 2-hour strategy helps students to examine how authors convey their biases in text. After reviewing several literary mediums, students explore the author's bias and how it impacts readers’ perceptions and reactions. This strategy can be adapted within a variety of history and literacy courses and students can work individually or in pairs.

 Adobe Spark Video allows students to demonstrate their thinking through visual content. This strategy helps students capture words/phrases that support how biases can surface in visual mediums. This strategy may be adapted for use with other Adobe products, such as Adobe Premiere Rush.

This 2-hour strategy helps students explore a text to determine character traits and perspectives. After analyzing the traits and perspectives of characters in a mentor text, students will use the skills they've learned about characterization to create their own character using the style of writing of the author of the mentor text. This strategy can be adapted within a variety of history and literacy courses and students can work individually or in pairs and can be adapted for use with other Adobe products, such as Adobe Premiere Rush.

Adobe Spark Video allows students to demonstrate their thinking through visual content. This strategy helps students capture words/phrases that describe a character mimicking the style of a writer.

This 2-hour strategy supports students to closely read articles about reforms. Using a variety of documents, photographs, charts, and journals, students will annotate articles using Adobe Acrobat. Then, students will share their understanding of the reform by creating an infographic using Adobe Spark Post.  

Adobe Spark Post is an interactive way for students to demonstrate their creativity and thinking.

This 3-hour strategy helps students determine how authors use imagery to persuade audiences. Analysis of various scenarios will support students to create and design characters and dialogue used to persuade other characters about responding to a particular problem in society. You can adapt this strategy within a variety of literary and history courses and students can work individually or in pairs. 

Adobe Character Animator enables students to demonstrate their thinking through imagery and dialogue. This strategy empowers students to think critically and creatively about how persuasion is used in real-world scenarios.  

This  2-hour strategy helps students to explore the concept of sustainability in a geographic region.  With the use of primary documents, students will read and highlight important features found in evidence from the text. Students will then explain their analysis by creating a 1- to 3-minute Adobe Spark Video. You can use this strategy for any literacy or social studies classroom, and it can be adapted for individual or partner work. This strategy can be adapted for use with other Adobe products, such as Adobe Premiere Rush.

Adobe Spark Video combines graphics, audio recordings, music, text, and photos to create short animated videos. This strategy empowers students to highlight key concepts in literature to describe the importance of cultural sustainability for individuals in a specific geographic region.

This 1.5-hour strategy helps students investigate the risks behind claims written in online resources. Using a variety of primary and secondary sources, students will identify arguments that support an author’s claim about a societal issue and create an Adobe Spark Post.  You can adapt this strategy within a variety of literary and history courses and students can work individually or in pairs. This strategy can also be adapted for use with other Adobe products, such as Adobe Acrobat DC.

 Adobe Spark Post is an interactive way for students to demonstrate their creativity and thinking about a societal issue. This strategy empowers students to demonstrate the motivation and effectiveness claims have on their perspective about topics that affect them in the real world. Topics can range from politics, health, personal freedoms, communicating on the Internet, etc. 

This 2-hour strategy helps students to analyze allusions and images in poetry. Students will analyze a poem and annotate it to demonstrate their understanding. This may be done with paper and pencil or in Adobe Acrobat Reader. After annotating the poem,  students will explain their analysis by creating a 1- to 3-minute Adobe Spark Video. You can use this strategy for any literacy classroom, and it can be adapted for use with other Adobe Products, such as Adobe Premiere Rush.  

Because Adobe Spark Video enables short animated videos, this strategy empowers students to demonstrate their understanding of a poem  in a deep and meaningful way.