Looking for Alaska Lesson Plan

Looking for Alaska's Tropes

Kind of Activity:

Individual Writing

Objective:

To explore the idea of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl and other tropes that may apply to Alaska

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.7 ; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.3

Structure:

TVTropes.com is a website that analyzes and compares figures in literature, film, television and media. Encourage your students to read the TVTropes.com pages about the archetype of the "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ManicPixieDreamGirl) and the "Broken Bird"(http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BrokenBird)

Your students should quickly notice how many attributes of this...