This article completes the series on the student artists:
Besides putting art on the back wall in the form of class galleries, another effective way to coax classes into performing at a higher level is to post lists of the names of all the characters that each class has produced up to that point in the year. This list can be put up anywhere but should be put near the gallery.
Some students, upon entering the classroom, walk right up to the Invisibles character lists from each class to see if any new characters have been created by other classes since they last looked. At times, an irresistible sense of competition with other classes happens.
A common result of such discussions is an urgency to get class started to get another character going to compete with the best characters from other classes. Once students start becoming aware of and expressing interest in the invisible characters that exist in other classes, you know that your language program is working.