Choose a story to read aloud from the Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History to engage your students in large group active listening activity. Then follow up with an active collaborative conversation about the story and discuss notable character traits, challenges faced and accomplishments this woman leader portrayed in the story.

Next, have students individually sketchnote, design a visual word collage or representation of their visual thinking ideas from the collaborative discussion that took place, supported with a question(s) you pose and from the list below.

1. How does the person in the story inspire you to act?

2. How does the life of this person make you believe your dreams can come true and why do you believe this?

3. What hope for the future does this person give to you?

4. What character trait does the person possess that you wished you had/why?

5. What was the person’s secret to success? How can you apply this secret

ingredient to your own life?

6. What can you do today as a direct result of the person’s contributions?

7. What emotions does this person make you feel and why?

8. What does this person’s life tell you about the time in which they lived?

9. What character traits do you share with the person and how do you know?

10. How does their life story help you to understand a different viewpoint?

Now, have students partner up into "transformative trio" groups and share their visual thinking and sketch noting ideas, and have students explain their why addressing the questions mentioned earlier as they use their sketch noted pictures and words to explain and represent their reasoning. Come back to the large group and have a student spokesperson from each group summarize the students group shares of learning, observations, and innovative ideas shared.

As a digital option to this activity, use the Think-Pair-Summary Jamboard template to have students work collaboratively as a dynamic duo to complete this activity from the read aloud and the questions posed.