Identity Web Monologues

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Many students—regardless of intellectual ability—have trouble connecting with their peers. Creating Identity Web Monologues can help!

Objective: Students will synthesize personal experience into art, leading to better connections and increased participation.

Here’s how it works:

1. Fill out your identity web with images or words.

2. Find a partner. Share 3-4 facts from your web with your partner.

3. Choose 1 fact from your web. Prepare a story you’re comfortable sharing that has to do with that fact (ex. My favorite animal is a turtle, so I am going to share the story of when I got my pet turtle.)

4. Perform the story as a monologue.

Level Down:

Customize or simplify the Identity Web (Editable)
Use a Monologue Template (.pdf file or .docx file)
Student stands while the instructor reads the monologue
Pair the student with a partner who can help structure their monologue
Pantomime the monologue
Memorize the monologue
Add physicality, music, or sound
Peer feedback and revision process
Swap stories and perform partner's monologue or sequence
Students swap webs to create a monologue as if they were playing their partner as a character

Level Up:

Turn this into a Movement activity
Turn this into a Music activity
Use webs in Science
Explore Social Studies events and symbols
Analyze characters in ELA
Use webs to explore mathematical concepts like Shapes and Money

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