The Collector
Lesson plan by Jamie Fein
Day 2
What’s on for today:
To examine some of the themes and the language throughout the book, and to compare those themes to the student’s life.
What to do:
1) Talk about the journal entries written for homework
2) Have a student take the job as recorder and write down the reasons people collect what they do
3) The teacher should guide them and some of the reasons people collect things should include beauty, worth money, because others influenced you to do it.
4) Break the group into three groups, giving each group one of the three reasons people collect things.
5) Each group must come up with their own sound effect for the theme
6) Students then go around the room and start at page 1. Every time their theme is mentioned on the page they must make the assigned sound effect.
Homework:
Read pages 1-15 and write a paragraph for each of the three themes. Write what your personal view point is in regards to the theme, and write what the narrator’s personal view point is in regards to the three themes. Use a quote to support the narrator’s personal view point.
The
lesson was a success if:
- the students were able to take the reasons they collect things and apply it to the novel
- If the students were able to pick out the themes
- the students had fun with the sound effects
- The students were able to go home and write the narrator’s personal view point and support it with a quote from the novel