Infinite Jest Lesson Plan

A Walk Through Your Neighborhood

Kind of Activity:

Creative Writing

Objective:

Students will write a personal essay in the form of a walk through a familiar or important locale.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.5

Structure:

Today's lesson focuses largely on how Wallace uses geography and the language of space to add a level of characterization to the people in Infinite Jest. In particular, we see Don Gately experience flashes of memory as he drives Pat Montesian's car through Allston.

Much in the way that Gately remembers times from his past, students will do the same as they guide their reader through a location that is...