Maya looked at photographs of her expressing 8 major emotions, and determined which each one was. She filled in her origami fortune teller with 8 major emotions and a group of synonyms for each on the next fold. This will help her with memorizing vocabulary to use in place of the basic term, as well as make connections to her life as she reads. She chose the emotion "calm" to generate ideas for a poem. We brainstormed activities, synonyms and things that remind us of that emotion.