For this lesson, students were asked to get to know their chosen fictitious narrative by applying adjectives to the book cover, pages, and reviews. However, in order to practice applying adjectives to objects, students were first asked to describe themselves using adjectives and share with a partner why they would describe themselves in that manner. Students kept their adjectives in their chosen novels to reflect later if they would either keep or change the adjectives they initially chose.

It is extremely important to talk about "judging a book by its cover" based on initial judgement because this idea and lesson will be applied to the following unit of discrimination. By applying initial biases to themselves and then a personally chosen story, students are putting into practice their initial reaction and judgement of someone or something, which will then be references to as the unit of discrimination commences, thus allowing students to reflect and respond to the study of discrimination and initial judgement that others were facing. By structuring a continual progression of complex response and reflection by applying it to reading and writing, students are participating and practicing the standard that meet the required requirements for graduation.

I taught this lesson twice, back to back, and I readjusted my involvement throughout the second time around. Initially, I had the students be the example and I talked through their participation to make the connection to their objectives. However, most students were slightly confused as to what was expected of them because there were no examples to follow. For the second period, I participated initially, modeling for the students how I found my adjectives (in their resources folder on my mentor teacher's site that they all had access to and used frequently) and how I applied those adjectives to myself through thought processing. I also provided an example when we moved on to their initial judgement of their chosen books (as shown in the photo to the left). With this modeling, students were given a clear understanding and example of what was expected of them.