Activity Overview
Creating a pretend Social Media Poster for a character or characters in a novel or play is a great way to engage students' love of technology while gauging their understanding of the story's themes, characters and overall plot. Students can imagine, what would the characters have tweeted or posted about? Who would show up on their character's Instagram? This example uses Greek Mythology with Hades' 3-headed-dog, Cerberus' pretend Instagram page, however any story or character could be used!
The profiles and what is included on them should be drawn from what students have learned about the characters in the story or from inferences students are able to make. They can include conversations and interactions through the form of private messaging, timeline posts, and more. To expand this activity into a group project, assign each student a character, and have them work with a small group to create interactions between characters.
An alternative to this assignment is to create and print out social media page worksheets for students to complete offline, or give them the choice if they'd like to create digitally or with pen and paper.
To find additional templates for this activity, please check out our social media page templates.
Template and Class Instructions
(These instructions are completely customizable. After clicking "Copy Activity", update the instructions on the Edit Tab of the assignment.)
Student Instructions
Due Date:
Objective: Create a social media profile for a character of your choice from your book using a poster-sized storyboard!
- Click "Start Assignment" to use the template in the assignment.
- Identify important character traits, interactions with other characters and events from your story.
- Create images, posts, & biographical information for your character of choice using appropriate scenes, items, and characters.
- Save and exit when you're done.
Lesson Plan Reference
- [ELA-Literacy/RL/6/2] Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments
- [ELA-Literacy/RL/7/3] Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot)
- [ELA-Literacy/RI/7/1] Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Rubric
(You can also create your own on Quick Rubric.)
| Proficient | Emerging | Needs Improvement | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Character Representation | The social media page depicts the character accurately through pictures and words. | Some images and words on the social media page accurately depict the character. | The images and words on the social media page do not accurately depict the character. |
| Artistic Depictions | The art chosen to depict the scenes are accurate to the work of literature. Time and care is taken to ensure that the scenes are neat, eye-catching, and creative. | The art chosen to depict the scenes should be accurate, but there may be some liberties taken that distract from the assignment. Scene constructions are neat, and meet basic expectations. | The art chosen to depict the scenes is too limited or incomplete. |
| English Conventions | Ideas are organized. There are few or no grammatical, mechanical, or spelling errors. | Ideas are mostly organized. There are some grammatical, mechanical, or spelling errors. | Storyboard text is difficult to understand. |
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