Sexing the Cherry Lesson Plan

Character-Building Collage

Kind of Activity:

Artistic Response

Objective:

Students will creatively demonstrate their understanding of one of the main character by making a collage based on their personality.

Structure:

Individually, students will pick 5-7 adjectives to describe Dog-Woman and Jordan, based on what they know about the characters. For each adjective, they will write a sentence or two explaining the context from the novel that made them choose that adjective.

Then, they will pick either Dog-Woman or Jordan and use their adjectives to make a character collage that they feel accurately depicts the character. Their collages will be digital, made with an app...