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Use this activity to engage all types of learners, while requiring that they refer to and incorporate details from the text over the course of the activity.
“What Is an Athlete?”
In this activity, students are asked to consider what happens to Teddy and Ethan’s friendship after the story ends by writing fictitious letters between the characters.
Write a letter from Teddy to Ethan and another from Ethan to Teddy. Imagine it is a month or so after Teddy has recovered. Teddy remembers the events of his injury, and he has heard his friend’s explanation.
Teaching Suggestion: To help them understand the complexity of the novel’s argument and its open ending, you might explicitly prompt students to compare Teddy, a gifted athlete, and his friend Ethan, a not-so-gifted athlete who pursues football to maintain social standing, and their respective reasons for playing football.
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