On June 20, 2023, Mgr. Diana Magátová from Gymnázium Myjava, Slovakia, led a workshop titled Rip van Winkle and American Revolution. The workshop started with a warm-up activity, in which students created short poems in teams. To show how history and each author’s experiences influence literature and how art mirrors reality, the discussion moved to analyzing Washington Irving’s Rip van Winkle and the key terms surrounding the American Revolution. The students worked directly with the literary text, analyzing its themes and ideas and looking for any similarities between the text and real historical events. Afterwards, they created posters representing the world of Rip van Winkle.