Reading this article, it made a lot of good points about students and how to use a variety of different ideas to strengthen their development of academic skills. A point that I liked that majority of teachers try to incorporate in their classrooms is the idea of popular culture. What I liked about this section of discussing popular culture is that they said the definition can vary. An idea that I really liked and would want to use in my classroom is when it discusses comparing popular culture in today films, magazines, books, and articles to classic literature. I thought this was a good idea because they all share similar qualities and students may not know that. Having students look at classic literature in more of a popular culture way can get them to relate more to the literature and make them more interested in finding the similarities. After reading that, the article then suggested having students study their everyday culture in their own life, either urban or rural communities and schools. I liked this idea because a lot of time people do not consider the different popular culture that occurs between these two. Both of these communities are very different and many students have different ideas on what their popular culture is based on their surroundings and where they grew up.