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TKM for Multiple Intelligences

VERBAL LINGUISTIC INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITY

               1. Write a series of newspaper articles covering the trial of Tom Robinson, including                               the article after his death.
              2. Set up a debate between a 1933 Southern lawyer and a modern day feminist               arguing why women should or should be allowed to serve on a jury.
               3. Write the dialogue that might have taken place in the jury room while the jurors                               were deliberating Tom's fate.
LOGICAL MATHEMATICAL INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITY

               1. Make a 3-D map of the Finch's neighborhood, labeling anything you can possibly                               label, including telling where specific incidents happened.
               2. Gather recipes for and make a southern style meal to share with the class.                                Provide copies of all recipes used, including the calculations needed to increase                                the recipes to make enough for the entire class. Make the meal and serve it.
BODILY KINESTHETIC INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITY

               1. First demonstrate the game of tire rolling with a stick. Then demonstrate how                                Scout rolled in the tire to Boo's house. Find and demonstrate other games that                               children of the depression may have played.
               2. Make up and perform a dance which demonstrates the feelings of Tom Robinson                                before, during, and after the trial.
SPATIAL INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITY

               1. Create a photo story representation. Take pictures of real places and people,                               arrange them, and explain how they represent the scenes of the story.

               2. Collect and set up a museum display of articles from the depression.
MUSICAL INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITY

              1. WRite and perform The Ballad of Tom Robinson.
               2. LIne a hymn to the class as Zeebo might have done.
INTERPERSONAL INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITY

              1. Take a poll in the community of the number of people who have read TKAM,               noting what impact, if any, the book had on each community member's way of               thinking.
               2. Act out the scene of the missionary ladies' meeting held by aunt alexandra. Add                               one additional character who tries to make the women of Maycomb see the               double standard they are presenting.
INTRAPERSONAL INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITY

               1. Find examples of three other mediums which represent the theme "don't judge                               others until you have walked in their shoes." Show and explain them.
               2. Decide which character you most identify with and show either through writing                               or through a visual display how and why you are like him/ her.

Contributed by Sue on NCTE-Talk

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