Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald Lesson Plan

Visualizing “The Offshore Pirate”

Kind of Activity:

Mixed Media

Objective:

In this activity, students will make a graphic novel for “The Offshore Pirate” to deepen their understanding of figurative language and the “story-like” quality of this work.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.4

Structure:

Part 1:

Students should choose a scene from “The Offshore Pirate” to turn into their graphic novel. This should be a very short passage (a couple of pages). Students should then extract the dialogue and setting descriptions during the dialogue—where the characters are when they are speaking, etc.

Next, students should search for uses of visual figurative...