Identify Themes in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Themes, symbols, and motifs come alive when you use a Storyboard. In this activity, students will identify a theme of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and support it with evidence from the text.

One theme is “Childhood Imagination”:

• The cat vanishes slowly beginning with the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.
• Alice tries to play croquet using hedgehogs as balls and flamingos as mallets.

A second theme is “Identity”:

• "I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah, THAT's the great puzzle!"
• Alice tells the Caterpillar that she cannot explain herself because she is confused after having changed sizes so many times.

Student Instructions

Create a storyboard depicting important themes from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

1. Use the template provided by your teacher.
2. Identify two themes in the story in the left-most column.
3. Describe two examples for each theme in the other two columns. Use quotes as needed.
4. Illustrate each example with appropriate scenes, characters, and items.