The students get into the novel by talking about the title of the book in a cooperative learning arrangement.
As a pre-reading activity, the students are to reflect characteristics of a good fashion salesman. Dealing with the opening stage directions, they are to work out the setting as well as character relations and draw or demonstrate spatial conditions.
The students learn about the main character's first day at a new school. After reading the first part of the novel together, the students have to do reading comprehension tasks. In order to take the character's perspective, the students prepare and act out a role play.
Dabei wird besonders auf die Differenzierungsmöglichkeiten zwischen starken und schwachen Lesern verwiesen.
Mit Hilfe eines Methodenblatts analysieren die Schüler Cartoons zum Thema "teenage pregnancy" in Gruppenarbeit.
