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: To add student to novel's reading.
Activity: Choices: 1) Write (a number) of journal entries from Jim's viewpoint, emphasizing his feelings during the trip. 2) Research and write a report on an area in the world currently experiencing "mans inhumanity to man." 3) Make a AAA triptik of the raft trip. 4) Write a play version of one significant scene in the novel and act out.
