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.
Students write a letter from Muley Graves to George Wilson.
Objective: To deepen understanding of and appreciation for human dignity through a written exercise.
Activity: In letter form, each student will write a letter from Muley Graves to George Wilson (The Great Gatsby) explaining how the banks have stripped him of his human dignity. In addition, each student will write a response from George, who explains how the corrupting upper-class ruined his life. (Incorporate his home "Valley of Ashes" and his wife.)
