green knight should be green: Graphic response to literature

When I read this article I fell in love with it. I loved the idea of having the students made an illustration of what they feel is an important focal point of scene of a story/poem/novel. One thing that I plan on doing with my classes in the future is striving to encourage as much creativity as possible. I feel that today teachers have strayed away from creativity and only care about the students repeating what they have been told so that they can get good grades. One thing I learned about myself early on in school was that if I could not be creative in learning or was not taught in any way other then lecturing, that I did not obtained what was being said. So often my history and math teachers just stood at the front of the room lecturing me on what I need to know and why and how it is important today, and I hate to say ti but I barely took in anything from what they taught me. It is very difficult for me to take in knowledge when I am not engaged at all, and lecturing is not engaging what so ever. The idea of bringing in graphic illustrations done by the students excite me because one, it encourages students to read and two, it encourages them to think out of the box and analyze what they are reading and really pull it apart and determine what is important.