- Students will identify traits of teenagers in the book and teenagers in real life

- Students will tell why the made certain words larger & smaller

- Students should use evidence from the book and real life evidence

- Students will identify traits of teenagers in the book and teenagers in real life

- Students will tell why they made certain words larger or smaller

- Students should use evidence from the book or real life evidence

- Students will create an internet meme (trollface, lolcat, Good Guy Holden, etc.) that creatively interprets an event or character from the chapter

- Students will explain the connection between the meme and the chapter

- Students will suggest how the meme will be used to communicate

If Holden had a Twitter now, what would his page look like?

What kind of tweets would he favorite or retweet?

Who would he follow and who would follow him?

What would he tweet himself?

Create a twitter page or timeline that addresses these questions.

- Brainstorm thoughts that come to mind while thinking about journalists own life

- Start writing ideas based on brainstorm

- Create a narrative in Catcher in the Rye style that comes from the prewriting ideas

- Recreate the reading in a movie script

- Make sure to format the journal entry in the screenwriting style (Character names in all caps, scene directions, etc.)

- Give background info on the two characters

- Find out how the two characters are similar in the actions they take in life

- Find out what kind of person they are throughout the text

- Create a dating profile for Holden or another character from the text

- Use details from the reading in the profile's biographical data

- Find a celebrity that matches a character's personality

- Explain the connection in detail

Draw a scene from your reading:

1) Use setting details to create a setting and scenery

2) Use descriptive details to determine the characters' positioning in the scene

3) Use analysis to determine the characters' facial expressions or emotions. Use text evidence to support your decisions

- Where would Holden shop at the mall today?

- How would he behave if you saw him shopping in public?

- What would Holden download to his smartphone if he had one?

- Based on the reading, what apps would he need to use in this chapter? How would he use them?

- Draw Holden's version of modern apps (Instagram, Snapchat, Apple Maps, etc.)

- Student should connect actions of the character to a work of art (painting, sculpture, drawing, etc.)

- Student should connect the meaning they derive from the work of art to the reasoning behind the character's actions

- Choose a book or other type of reference that Holden refers to in the reading (David Copperfield, Out of Africa, etc.)

- Find out, or imagine, what that text is about

- Why would Holden connect to this text? Refer to other parts of your reading.

- Depending on what happens in the chapter, pick a TV show or episode that would represent it

- Who would play what characters on the show?

- What would happen in the episode, or what episode of the known TV show is the chapter most like?

- Students will rewrite the chapter as though it was a blog post of one of the characters

- What kind of references would those characters make today? What kind of websites would they link?

- Student alternates between describing some of the action of the chapter and describing songs that would play in the movie version of that chapter

- Student create connection as to why the songs chosen would accurately support the themes and feelings of the scene

- Student would be sure to describe the songs in a way that is understandable for someone who hasn't heard them, and perhaps include interpretation of the lyrics

- Students will interpret a scene from the reading as a page from a graphic novel

- Include actual dialog from the text

- Drawings should reflect the students analysis of the event