The Island of Dr. Moreau Lesson Plan

Character Illustration

Kind of Activity:

Artistic Response

Objective:

Students will be able to translate text into abstract representations of characters.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.7 Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g., Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts" and Breughel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus).

Structure:

Have students pick a character from the first section of reading and draw their mental image of the character based on Wells' description. After drawing, students who chose to draw the same character...