I would integrate critical literacy by being able to have my class read primary documents and interpreting them. I also feel there is so much more to literacy than primary documents. I feel it is getting to the heart of the individual using different resources to help students understand. I have to teach to their needs by helping them understand what is being taught. This is done through reading, writing, projects, and just building a relationship of trust. Literacy is so deep especially learning history. Through primary documents and picking them apart, teaching to student’s needs, reading, and writing will all be integrated strongly as critical literacy within my classroom. I will used many different methods. One I will use is Word Family Tree-using the words the students can use the organizer to define the key words by finding their origin and words that are similar. Then have the students write the word with a definition. Then they will write the sentence where they found the word. Then they will answer how three different people may use this word or how it could be written in a sentence. This would be on way them to learn different words. That is one method. Another method is Possible Sentences which the words will be listed at the top of the page. Then each student will be write two sentences about what the day’s lesson will be about. Then students after the lecture is given will write a two or three sentences that use the words written above to create understanding. This will help each student tie the different vocabulary words together. Just keep make things like a mini skirt, long enough to cover the subject but short enough to keep interesting, I will write one more even though I have many. I like the idea a teacher gave me about incorporating vocabulary with art. I love the idea of doing a work of art to have someone explain a key term. I love this idea, and would appeal to so many students. That’s just a few ways of teaching vocabulary. I love the idea of being a history teacher and having students become a certain person in history and do a presentation about it. I learned so much from this as a student myself being Nicolas Copernicus and Frederick Douglass and it was fun. Then students give oral presentations to the class on who they are and act as them teaching the entire class about this certain person. This will definitely be used for oral language within the class alongside discussions and conversations. I will have students use glogs because they are pretty much awesome. I love the idea of having a simple board where there are clickable links that lead you to the information and research. They are also pretty vibrant and eye catching, which makes history come alive for many. I will definitely integrate that into my teaching. Another thing I learned through interviewing a teacher for my final project was using different online games to teach historical information. The generations I will be teaching will eat that kind of technology up, and will help them learn, which happens to be the ultimate goal.