Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Lesson Plan

"Stuff That Happened to Me"

Kind of Activity:

Technology

Objective:

Students will make their own scrapbooks like Oskar's to explore how images can help a person process life events.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.8, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.5

Structure:

Begin the activity by having students turn to the pages in the novel that seem to come from Oskar's scrapbook, "Stuff That Happened to Me," and talk through the meanings of the images. Some of them are clear: a wall of keys from Frazer and Sons; the face of Oskar's hero, Stephen Hawking; Hamlet holding the skull of Yorick, which Oskar will play in a...