Pop Culture in the Classroom – Characterization
Today, my grade 9 students became psychologists in order to study The Joker.
There are tons of JPEGs of the Joker online — most of them high quality — so I was able to create a Power Point presentation in a few minutes. No gimmicks. No sound bytes. Just images, quotation, and student discussion.
And the Joker has a series of excellent lines that lead us to his motivation.
In this way, we consolidated our understanding of direct and indirect characterization and moved on to expressing our analysis of characterization in writing.
