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.
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Objective: Create a social media profile for a character of your choice from your book using a poster-sized storyboard!