Mobydiculousness

Good Morning one and all. Here is a lesson plan that I utilize for Moby Dick

I put the students into groups and have them "cast" a movie version of Moby Dick.
What they have to do is this:
They have to figure out locations for shooting scenes and an actor for each character. This does a couple of things...
They really get into the setting and making sure that it is accurate.
As far as the characters are concerned, they totally have a grand time with characterization, character traits, static, dynamic all those wonderful things that make a teacher's face light up when you see them take the ball and run.

Then, each group has to present his or her cast list and shooting locations to the class. What is more important than the who is the why. My students are fully aware that I am more concerned with the why than the who.

This is a really fun activity for the students because it provides two very important key elements - creative freedom and a small study group which will allow for discovery of important details and to see what another classmates perspective is...

Maybe I will try this next year with Of Mice and Men...Hmmmmm