Focus: Important Scenes in a text, reversals of fortune in plot, developing connections from a text to an enjoyable student pastime.
Materials: Paper, pen, novel the students are reading at the time, colored pencils, projector and computer to show failblog examples.
Rational: Since there is such a large following of failblog.org and with the prevalence of "fail" and "win" in everyday speech amongst young people, I thought this would be great fun for a post reading assignment, particularly in novels that feature great reversals of fortune, or scenes of great failure or success.
Procedure:
Once students have finished reading a book, such as Dorian Gray, they will be asked to draw a "fail" or "win" picture based on a moment in the book. For example, a student might draw the scene where Dorian stabs the painting thus killing himself and label that an EPIC FAIL.
The instructor could then put the pictures up around the classroom.
Wilde, Oscar. (1962). The Picture of Dorian Gray and Selected Stories. New York, NY: Signet Classics.
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