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Alice SeboldA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
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.
“Photo Journal”
In this activity, students create a photo journal to analyze the important things in life.
In The Lovely Bones, Susie’s hobby of taking pictures serves as a reminder of what is most important to her family and friends. Other photos in the novel also play an important role for the characters, such as the photos Fenerman uses to keep track of his cases and the photos Jack and Abigail use to remember Susie. Eventually, Fenerman and Abigail release some of the photos because they are connected to items or belief systems they can no longer hold on to.
Create a photo journal as a reminder for you and those closest to you of what is most important. Draw comparisons between the photos throughout the novel to your own photos as reminders of what to let go of and what to hang on to.
By Alice Sebold