Learning literature is boring???

 THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Today I want to try to approach to the literature in a different way. 

We are going to learn more about a north-american writer.

What do you know about J.D. Sallinger?

J.D.Sallinger biography

The catcher in the ride was his main work.

The catcher in the rye

By clicking  this link you have all the information you need to know more about this nobel. You have the description of the characters and a summary of each chapter.

After that, there is  a topic called: Study tools, which contains helpful information, suggestions and a quiz.

You will work with this web site and, even without reading the whole book, you will try to understand the meaning of it.

What will we do now?

We have to performance a short theatre about this book.

On groups of four people, you have to choose one character (not only the ones in the book, you can choose whoever you want).

Example: Salinger, Mark David Chapman, John Lennon, a policeman. 

(Because you know all the curiosities, don´t you?)

Curiosities about the book

So, let´s see your performances!!!

This exercise is a motivating activity to learn about literature and it can help those students who don´t like reading the book and making an essay or a quiz. Here, the students have to learn about the book through a performance, and they will not realize that they are learning until they perform and see their partners´performances.  

This way of teaching results very motivating for interpersonal and intrapersonal learners.