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Beyond Curriculum #1: A Literary Analysis Project that Reaches the Multiple Intelligences

Teaching with the multiple intelligences inscripts, create their own costumes, sets,
mind is an admirable goal - and a difficultprops, and sound effects, and finally present
one. How do you effectively incorporate thetheir adaptations to the class. Some students
multiple intelligences, meet the requirementschoose to stage live performances, while
of your school's curriculum, and make sureothers video tape their performances. Each
that your students are developing theirperformance is evaluated by the audience as
verbal-linguistic and logical-mathematicalwell as by the performers.In the past, my
intelligences all at the same time?In moststudents have adapted Shakespeare's Julius
cases, the answer is: you don't - at leastCaesar using the following themes: a
not all at the same time. With carefulsuper-hero theme, teenage conflicts using
planning, teachers can create a balance instereotypical social groups, Disney films,
their lesson plans so that they accomplishetc.In addition to the traditional
all three of these goals over a period ofverbal-linguistic and logical-mathematical
time. Teachers who try to accomplish thisintelligences used to write about and analyze
feat every day will burn themselves out andliterature, this writing assignment asks
will probably succeed in entertaining theirstudents to call upon the spatial,
students rather than teaching them.Every oncebodily-kinesthetic, musical, and
in a while, an assignment has the ability tointerpersonal intelligences. The
meet all of these requirements, and betterself-evaluation used at the end of the
yet, has the potential to reach all of theproject even incorporates the intrapersonal
multiple intelligences (as opposed to two orintelligence.This writing assignment is
three). The Performance Adaptation Project isparticularly well-suited to Shakespeare's
my personal favorite because my students wereworks, but it will work successfully with
so deeply engaged in the process. I watchedother dramas as well as other types of
students who very rarely participated inliterature.I have had more success with this
class exchanging ideas, helping to decideproject than any other I have ever attempted.
what music best suited a particular scene orThe students love it and the quality of their
whether or not Brutus had to die in order towork demonstrates a far greater understanding
fulfill the theme of the play.The Performanceof the literature than they would have
Adaptation Project is a writing assignmentotherwise achieved. It requires a bit of work
that encourages students to useto arrange, but it is well worth the
non-traditional skills and talents to respondeffort.Visit The Writing Tutor lesson plans
to literature. The purpose of the writingsection for more information. Handouts are
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extended analysis and discussion. Studentsmother of three boys. Acosta has recently
are organized into groups of approximatelycompleted her first self-help writing book
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students are familiar with it. Adaptations ofVisit The Writing Tutor for the ecourse
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complete, the students write their own



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