1.Voice and Perspective Role Play: Engages students in assuming characters’ roles from “The Handmaid’s Tale” to explore how identity shapes narrative perspectives.
2. Textual Identity Exploration: Analyzes how an author’s philosophical identity influences character creation, using Albert Camus's “The Stranger” as a case study.
3. Reader-Writer Connection Debate: Facilitates a debate on how much of an author’s identity is reflected in their characters, focusing on Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment”.
4. Introduction to Identity—A Letter to Teachers: This book provides educators with foundational activities for integrating identity exploration into literary studies.
5. d Character Monologue Rewrite: Encourages rewriting a monologue from “Hamlet” to include personal identity reflections, deepening understanding of character analysis.
6. Multiple Perspectives: Students rewrite a scene from “One Hundred Years of Solitude” from different characters’ viewpoints to see how identity affects narrative perception.
7. Reader’s Identity Journal: Reflects on how personal identity influences the interpretation of “The Great Gatsby”.
8. Identity Collage: Uses visual arts to express the identity of literary characters and the students themselves, fostering a creative understanding of character analysis.
9. Dramatic Reading with Emotion: Involves performing a scene from “Waiting for Godot” with varied emotional interpretations to explore identity’s role in character development.
10. Author-Character Identity Mapping: Compares the identities of Chinua Achebe and his character Okonkwo, illustrating how personal and cultural experiences shape literary characters.
11. Parallel Poems: Students create poems mirroring the structure of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” to express personal identity struggles.