My sts are reading The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde , and I'd like to know some interesting activities to work with them after they finish reading it. They're not reading the original version, they are reading the one by (bookworms Oxford- intermediate level).
Thanks.
Ideas to work with The picture of Dorian Gray .
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You can put them into teams and have them create skits or an entire play of the book. First they decide the general layout, then they have to script it all out, then they practice and then its showtime!
I haven't gotten to do a play yet, I am going to start one with my students tomorrow off a very short story. I think plays are beneficial in that they force the student to look back over the story for details (a behavior you should encourage).
They could also create a comic book. I had students do this for a short story as well and they spent a lot of time rereading the story to create the comic book. I found that it is necessary for you to create a rough example of the comic book to show them (just the first page). The comic book elements are the squares, the talk bubbles, and some narrating text here and there. If someone finishes early, instruct them to color it by emphasizing important points of each frame by color. They don't necessarily have to color all of it, but the most important parts to bring out the story.
I will post some more ideas in a bit after I speak to someone on the subject.
I haven't gotten to do a play yet, I am going to start one with my students tomorrow off a very short story. I think plays are beneficial in that they force the student to look back over the story for details (a behavior you should encourage).
They could also create a comic book. I had students do this for a short story as well and they spent a lot of time rereading the story to create the comic book. I found that it is necessary for you to create a rough example of the comic book to show them (just the first page). The comic book elements are the squares, the talk bubbles, and some narrating text here and there. If someone finishes early, instruct them to color it by emphasizing important points of each frame by color. They don't necessarily have to color all of it, but the most important parts to bring out the story.
I will post some more ideas in a bit after I speak to someone on the subject.