Breakfast of Champions Lesson Plan

Social Media Champions

Kind of Activity:

Long-term Project

Objective:

Students will be able to gain a better understanding of character development and plot structure while involving familiar modern technology.

Structure:

For this project, students will create Twitter or Instagram accounts for the characters in the novel and update them as they go along and find out more about their characters.

Students will each choose or be assigned one of the characters (there are no "major" and "minor" characters, remember?), and proceed to post photos and reflections in the format of either a tweet or an Instagram photo caption or story. The premise will be that the characters will...