透過視覺化（心靈的藝術）提升閱讀理解能力

Students will learn what visualization is and increase their visualization skills.  Visualization tools and the six senses will be covered.  Students will practice visualization with given passages from text written by well-known authors.  Students will also learn how to increase their visualization skills and reading comprehension using generative AI.
For this example, I will just use my simple sentence "It rained all day and the bluest sky was forgotten like a long lost sailor."  Examining "rain"--exploring the sounds of rain droplets, learning more about rain and the different types of rains, seeing videos of different types of rain storms in different countries and during different times of the day, etc.  This would help someone visualize better "rain" when reading the text.  Class participation is encouraged but students do not have to participate.   Students can hear from each other their differences in visualization of the same paragraphs they all read.  My teaching style for this class is informal, like a literary club atmosphere.

Students are not required to read the full books.  The books' dynamics will be discussed, as well as changes in what is appropriate for today's literature compared to the past.  The paragraphs chosen for study will be on the two-page handout.  Each paragraph offers an in-depth analysis of what we bring forth within to read.  Students can choose to visualize or not, when they further perfect their visualization skills, they do not have to use them if they do not want to do so.  This topic also covers some basics in filming such as viewer orientation and similar.  It covers some areas of ecology, foreign travel, and social issues in foreign countries.  However, the focus is on increasing visualization skills.  Visualization skills can be used for most subject matters, not just literature.  Visualization can help memorize material.  Visualization skills can always be increased and improved on at any age.

Discussed paragraphs will be from science fiction novel J.G. Ballard's "The Crystal World," and two nonfiction (true stories) books--Grace Pundyk's "The Honey Trail:  In Pursuit of Liquid Gold and Vanishing Bees," and Monte Reel's "The Last of the Tribe: The Epic Quest to Save the Lone Man in the Amazon."  These works are considered multicultural literature.