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Activity: The Great Gatsby Chapter
Presentations
Assignment
Description & Purpose
This "acting" activity
is designed to help students develop a deeper understanding of the
literature. I've used this approach with both novels and Shakespeare's
drama (see the Performance
Adaptation Project for a more in-depth variation of this type of
assignment).
This is another great opportunity to implement the multiple
intelligences into the
classroom.
When using this approach with a novel, I assign groups of three or four
students to a chapter. They are asked to select a passage or a series
of passages that they like and which are important to the development
of the chapter and the novel. They are also required to plan and
present a rationale in which they explain the reason they select their
passage(s) and the importance of the passage to the novel. They are
asked to consider foreshadowing, symbolism, and characterization when
planning their rationales. (The literary devices assigned depend upon
the novel.)
To complete
this assignment, students
use their intrapersonal,
verbal-linguistic, and logical-mathematical intelligences in scene
selection, their interpersonal and logical-mathematical intelligences
in planning and organizing their scene, their interpersonal,
verbal-linguistic, and bodily-kinesthetic intelligences to act out the
scene, and they use their logical-mathematical and verbal-linguistic
intelligences to organize and present their rationales at the end of
the scene.
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