Students learn about the impact society can have on individuals and their ability to act freely by examining characters choices and motivations. Before reading the text, students complete a historical context research assignment. The novel is chunked, stopping at key points along the way to examine choices, motives, narrator’s perspective and theme. At each stopping point, students complete a graphic organizer and engage in discussion to demonstrate their learning. Students create Adobe Spark videos as a culminating, summative project for this unit to showcase the novel’s influence upon others.
Self-Assess / Revise Goals
The novel is broken into six parts. As students read they think critically about the following:
Students create an Adobe Spark Video to represent their understanding of the guiding questions for the novel:
Students use the following resources to plan, develop, improve and present their videos: