Encourage tinkering with ideas, relationships, connections. Set up situations where students have to find information not readily available in school texts. Provide opportunity for students to design open-ended explorations of the concept. Provide multiple options so students can plan a unique "proof" of learning.

Autobiographical Rich in _____. Three chapters in their lives linked by a common theme.

Objective: As Lucille realizes that she is "rich in love," students will realize that they, too, are "rich" in a quality maybe unbeknownst to them.

Activity: Students are to take the short essay written in 1L, and expand it, and examine it for thematic potential. They are to determine what about themselves is "rich" (in laughter, recklessness, curiosity, etc.) and write three chapters from their own lives that illustrate this idea. Students are to include figurative language in their writing in the way that Humphreys employs it in the first person with Lucille.

Assessment: Quality of writing, ability to see common themes developing.