THE BIGSPEARS graphic organizer is an ELD support tool for educators, students, and groups to deconstruct various aspects of life into specific categories. The tool can be used as a vehicle for building empathy in the classroom as teachers model the process and present their lives through these frames. The introspective process of using this mind map to record their autoethnographies serves as a precursor to the writing process. Students then go on to create their own Lifebooks to present in cla