The following are additional activities and more detailed descriptions of some of the strategies suggested for teaching the English Literature 12 curriculum. Creating board games is an enjoyable activity that can help students understand plot-oriented works of fiction. In small groups, students create board games based on the plot of the story. Groups devise games in which players throw dice and move tokens from square to square, back and forth along detours, and toward a winning space related to the end of the story. Moves should be inspired by elements in the plot.
Teams write complete sets of rules and produce visually attractive game boards.
Choral Reading Students may find a longer poem more interesting or accessible if they are introduced to it as a choral reading. The class is divided into groups of four or five. Each group is assigned one section of the poem. Group members carefully rehearse their reading together and consider how they want to present it to the class. Finally, the poem is performed in class with groups taking turns reading their parts.