• Name of lesson: Literary Characters with Social Media

• Grade Level Appropriateness: High School (11th-12th)

• Technology Content Standard Addressed: (3c) Students curate information from digital
resources using a variety of tools and methods to create collections of artifacts that demonstrate
meaningful connections or conclusions.

• Other Content Standard Addressed: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Demonstrate

knowledge of eighteenth-, nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century foundational works of
American literature.

• Objective:  Students will navigate social media formatted website to demonstrate critical
understanding of assigned texts through chronologically writing updates(tweets) using assigned
character’s POV.
• Materials needed to facilitate the lesson: Students will need access to internet, a computer or
phone with access to the internet, a Twitter account (or website that has similar formatting) that
may be created using a phone number or email address, and their assigned text.
• Suggested group size: Students will be divided into groups of three or more dependent on the
amount of integral characters in assigned text. Students will work independently to formulate
their character’s statuses but work together to reply and interact with their assigned partners that
are portraying other main characters from the novel.
• Procedures:
1. Students will be divided into groups of three (can be altered depending on the
amount of main characters for future lessons)
2. Once divided into groups of three students will randomly be assigned a literary
character from the text just completed. For this assignment we are doing The Great
Gatsby. Assign students to be Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway, or Daisy Buchanan.
Each group of three should have one Gatsby, one Nick, and one Daisy.
3. Have students access https://twitter.com/i/flow/signup

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9. Students will use their newly set up Twitter accounts to post a minimum of 14 tweets
in chronological order of the story, address key plot points, and be written from
their assigned character’s point of view
 10. Students will create a minimum of 4 replies to another character’s tweet or directly
address them in a post (demonstrated in step 8 picture 3)

11. Students are not permitted to use hashtags(#oldsport) so their tweets are only
shared with their fellow peers.
12. Students will turn in their character’s username (ex: @jaygatsby006) for inspection
when project is due, or teacher can have students use a school specific hashtag to
find their student’s work.

• Assessment: Student will be able to demonstrate critical understanding of characters, plot, and

appropriate interactions between characters found in assigned text. Student will have completed
the assigned number of status updates (minimum of 14 no more than 20) as well as responses
(minimum of four interactions whether that’s using their @ in a tweet or responding to a tweet).
Students will show a comprehensive knowledge of themes and key plot points.