The typical workshop lesson involves hooking the students, or grabbing their attention, modeling the lesson and independent practice. At Brennan Rogers Magnet School we use the Expeditionary Learning workshop model, which clearly outlines each step in the lesson and allows the teacher to really think about how the lesson is to be presented and implemented. Each lesson starts with a hook and model lesson. There are three mini lessons below that should help students gain a better sense of the relation between words and images. These are quick activities that can initiate lessons on various topics of the teacher's choice. The purpose of these activities is to ignite the thinking and learning process of your students. These are not full lessons and shouldn't be used as such.
The first mini lesson will teach students about the importance of captions. This activity will help students realize the importance of reading the captions for more information. This activity supports McCloud's theory that there are in fact times when text and images are interdependent.