Spend a Day in My Shoes: Exploring the Role of Perspective in Narrative

Materials and Technology

Student Interactives

Printouts

Preparation

 

MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY

• To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
  
  
• An assortment of different types of shoes (a cowboy boot, a high-heeled pump, a running shoe, a beach sandal, and so forth); or pictures of a variety of different types of shoes
  
  
• Writing supplies (paper, pens, pencils, etc.)—Writer's notebooks will work for this activity.

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STUDENT INTERACTIVES

Grades   3 – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Organizing & Summarizing

Circle Plot Diagram

The Circle Plot Diagram can be used as a prewriting graphic organizer for students writing original stories with a circular plot structure as well as a postreading organizer used to explore the text structures in a book.

 

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PRINTOUTS

• Walking in Someone Else's Shoes
  
  
• Overhead of quotation from To Kill a Mockingbird

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PREPARATION

• Make copies of the Walking in Someone Else's Shoes handout.
  
  
• Gather your collection of shoes. You might borrow shoes from family, friends, and neighbors to get specimens from many "walks of life."
  
  
• Alternately, collect pictures of shoes—you might save catalogs and newspaper ads or search for shoes online. The "Apparel" tab on the Amazon Website can provide a variety of images that you can use as well as descriptions of the shoes.
  
  
• Make an overhead of the quotation from To Kill a Mockingbird, or write the quotation on the board or on chart paper.
  
  
• Test the Circle Plot Diagram student interactive on your computers to familiarize yourself with the tool and ensure that you have the Flash plug-in installed. You can download the plug-in from the technical support page.

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