Encourage tinkering with ideas, relationships, connections. Set up situations where students have to find information not readily available in school texts. Provide opportunity for students to design open-ended explorations of the concept. Provide multiple options so students can plan a unique "proof" of learning.

Project Options

Objective: For students to visualize Holden’s journey through Manhattan. For students to recreate his footsteps through one portion of the Journey

For students to understand Holden’s desire to keep things “as they are” and to understand the need for growth and change.

1) Students create map of entire journey through New York City, noting the important positive and negative influences along the way
2) For students in the metropolitan New York City area, a field trip to:
a. Museum of Natural History
b. Skating rink
c. carousel in Central Park
d. Write a letter to Holden describing the experience at the museum, the rink and the carousel

Assessment: Visual-metaphoric ability and completeness of journey
Letter-conceptual understanding of growth and change