Sparkchasers: Teaching Through The Creative Mindset

Visit Artsintegration.com/Sparkchasers for the full episode show notes, resources, and conversation. There’s a secret that writers use to instantly make their writing more engaging for the viewer or the reader. It’s called a Throughline. Essentially, a throughline is a connecting theme, plot, or characteristic. Today, I want to show you how to use Throughlines in your teaching to make it pop and help students deepen their learning. Key Ideas: A Throughline is a theme, plot, or characteristic that connects stories together.  Authors use Throughlines for stories that have a lot of elements going on. Example: Outlander, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, TED Talks. These are for EPIC content. Throughlines help the viewer or reader do a few things: understand the theme/character better over time, layer experiences, make predictions, and become invested in the story. Throughlines help the author do a few things, too: chunk out a story so as to not overwhelm the viewer/reader, get deeper with a theme/character, ma