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ACTIVITY: Reading Process Project
Project: Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, Motion and the Physics of Change
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Assessments: Student reflections/journals, Student discussions, Student writing
Description
In preparation for their integrated exhibition with Science, students complete this Reading Process Project to pay close attention to the narrative of the novel through the metaphorical lens of Motion and The Physics of Change, examining the events and characters in Neverwhere for evidence of:
* The POTENTIAL ENERGY of a choice waiting to be made (questions, experiences, possibilities...)
* The KINETIC ENERGY of a life lived by those choices (discoveries made, transformations, etc...)
* The VELOCITY at which a life moves (Where did it start? Where is it headed? How fast is it going?)
* How NEWTON'S 1ST LAW OF MOTION not only affects us physically, but also emotionally and mentally (What moves people? What gets in our way? What does it take to change?)
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