We have just started, what I think, is a great project. I wish I could take credit for it but one day while searching for lesson plans related to charactization, I came across someone else’s great idea. It is to create a myspace or facebook mock home page. The kids are told to pick their favorite character from any book they have read and using a template from Word, they fill in information about that character. They have to use their imagination to decide what kind of music or movies would Dustfinger from Inkspell like for example. Or what interests and heroes does Winnie, from Tuck Everlasting have. Or give personal details like ethnicity, education, family status, character traits, occupation, and behavior for Bobby Pendragon in the Pendragon series. So far it is going great.
Comming soon, links to the students character “myspace” pages!
