Peter Pan Lesson Plan

Your Neverland

Kind of Activity:

Creative Writing

Objective:

Students will engage with the metaphor of Neverland and create their own conception of it using the story as a template.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3

Structure:

The concept of Neverland is an island shaped to each child's imagination. It expresses their own invented worlds, their own fixations, and desired adventures. In order to engage with Neverland as a concept, have students create their own Neverlands.

Each student should write a description of their own Neverland, based on the format we see in Peter Pan (i.e. there are different sections based places each of...