Capturing the Electric Moment: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Legacies
Visuals can create empathy, inspire creativity, cause self-reflection, and spark action. They can provide thoughtful contemplation or visceral reactions. They can link past to present and human to human, bridging eras and divides such as culture, age, race, and gender. Those connections can lead to inspired, meaningful research and writing. Using visual imagery is an exciting way to jump-start student writing, whether fiction, nonfiction, poetry or journaling.