Teacher notes:
The following lesson ideas incorporate reading expectations 1.5 and 1.8 for intermediate level students.
Three Photographs/Three Words
Choose three different photographs and place the same word over each of the images. The new text should inspire the viewer to interpret the words and text in three different ways. Be prepared to explain your rationale. (oral or written explanation)
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Choose three identical photographs and place different words over each of the images. The new text should inspire the viewer to interpret the words and text in three different ways. Be prepared to explain your rationale. (oral or written explanation)
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Free Advice
Pretend you have a website where you give wise advice to readers who write you about their problems. Use the main character from the story and write a letter which describes his or her problem. Reply with your advice.
Detective’s Insights
Pretend you have been hired to follow the main character in the story and figure out why he or she is going places, saying and doing things over the period of time. Set your writing up to look like the following log:
| Observed Activity (places or people visited, comments overheard, things done, etc.) | Comments (Your judgments or conclusions about his or her motives, values, or lifestyle, etc.) |
Imagined Dialogue
Pick two characters from the story who never speak. They could be characters that do not know each other in the story or perhaps are just from different parts of the story. Write a dialogue of what they might say to one another.
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