Lesson Plan Title: Victorian Style Digital Story (Allegory)

Concept / Topic To Teach: Students will learn to communicate ideas,

particularly regarding cultural perspectives and experiences by means of
storytelling, using various types of technology and media to effectively and
accurately convey their ideas.
Standards Addressed: RL6, W1
General Goal(s): Students will build off of what they have learned in their
webquests about Victorian society and how certain concerns, issues or
events of that time period influenced the literature, creating their own story
in the vein of Victorian-era literature, which addresses some of those
concerns.
Specific Objectives:
Condition: Given a prompt for the Victorian Style Digital Story
Behavior: I (students) will write a narrative to develop a real or imagined
experience and analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience
reflected in a working of literature, drawing on a wide reading of world
literature
Measure: by using my analysis of cultural experiences and perspectives
reflected in Victorian literature and various media to produce a story, which
will reflect that very cultural experience or perspective, scoring 12 points
on the rubric.
Required Materials: Pencils/pens, lined paper, blank paper/construction
paper for storyboards, laptops/Macbooks, software (Windows Movie
Maker, imovie, Powerpoint) Digital Camera
Anticipatory Set (Lead-In): Teacher will remind students that upon
completing reading of Jekyll and Hyde and embarking on the Webquest,
they uncovered many things about Victorian society and how the literature
of that time the thoughts, concerns and opinions that Victorians had in
relation to what was going on in the world around them. The teacher and
students will discuss the particular things that the students may have
uncovered about that era that influenced the literature: the fact that the
Victorina Era was simultaneously an age of great prosperity and moral
degradation-that bad came with the good that bad things may have
been born from good things, the threats modernity (technology and
science) posed to old, wholesome values, how child labor was a result of
the large demand of fuel for the steam engines, etc. He will ask how their
findings regarding the time period relate to the literature, at which point, the
teacher will point out that the stories can be seen as an allegory for some
of the things they mentioned. Based on that discussion, students will be
asked how they will define an allegory. After a definition has been
established, the teacher will then posit the assignment by presenting them
with the prompt which will read as follows: Now that we have analyzed the

various ways in which Victorian cultural experiences and perspectives are

reflected in the literature of that time, we will now create an allegory that
does the same. Pick a particular experience or point of view that you think
dominated the Victorian era, and create an original story on either
Windows Movie Maker or iMovie which reflects that experience or point of
view. The teacher will then go over the criteria outlined for the project,
subsequently modeling for students what their story should look like by
presenting his own original sample. Before presenting the sample students
will be asked to consider how the teacher met the criteria presented in the
rubric and how his story reflects any of the cultural experiences or points of
view discussed previously, invoking once more what students had
uncovered during their Webquests.
Step-By-Step Procedures:
1. Choose a cultural point of view or experience during the Victorian
Era that you would like your story to reflect.
2. Choose which medium you would like to use.
3. Create a storyboard for your narrative. This can be done on either
construction paper or PowerPoint.
4. Write a script for your story.
5. Gather images, music you would like to include in your story. Make
sure that they contribute somehow to the atmosphere of your story.
6. Create the story using the images and music you have gathered on
your medium of choice, adding sound effects and voiceover.
Plan For Independent Practice: Students will have the option of reading
and watching more contemporary works and analyzing how similar modern
cultural perspectives and experiences are reflected in the literature and
film today.
Assessment Based On Objectives: See rubric.
Possible Connections To Other Subjects: This can easily relate to
history and science, as it will be a period piece based on the Victorian Era
itself, during which major strides were being made in the areas of science
and technology.

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