Maya and I reviewed what she had read previously about Columbus and his team of explorers. We discussed what it must have been like for these men to be at sea for over 10 weeks. Following the review and discussion, Maya wrote a diary entree as one of the explorers. She did very well putting herself in the role and tried to imagine what it must have been like to sleep on a boat for that long. We used Maya's adjective word wall to find words that supported how the explorers could have felt.