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Revision With Twitterature

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Here is a very short, simple activity for revision (probably for Part 3 texts). You can use it at the beginning of a lesson as a 'starter' activity, or at the end. It takes 5-15 minutes. As exams loom, it is also a creative way to de-stress (rather than distress) students. The 'blanks' can be completed by teachers or students to reflect the texts studied in class. Students can write one or several tweets. The tweeting can be loosely focused, or directed at particular aspects of literary texts. The activity is really self-explanatory, requiring no further introduction. 

 Revising with Twitterature

Revising Texts: Twitterature

Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables users to send and read "tweets", which are text messages limited to 140 characters.

Here are some tweets (below) from the book Twitterature, which tries to capture something of the essence of famous literary texts. Not only are the tweets pithy, they are arguably also very humorous. However, unless you have some awareness of the original literary text, the humour may simply pass you by…

‘Playing it cool, but I am suddenly filled with a deep ambition. ‘Tis bad news.’ (Macbeth by William Shakespeare)

‘BFF Gatsby and I going to town today – should be fun! Wants to meet his friends…’ (The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

‘Her granddaughter Estella is pretty hot. She’s ten. I’m ten too. All she does is make fun of me. Maybe it’s my name.’ (Great Expectations by Charles Dickens)

‘My boss wants to see me; this can’t be good. Maybe I’ll get laid off and have to transfer to the Ministry of Irony.’ (Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell)

‘It is a bit of a rut being so miserably impoverished. I need something to lighten up my life, something exciting…’ (Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky)

‘This one seems quite interested in my sister – but the other one, a Mr Darcy, is very cold and condescending. I find that… attractive.’ (Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen)

‘Digging up body parts and putting them together seems pretty out there. Maybe add a million volts of electricity?’ (Frankenstein by Mary Shelley)

‘I met a doctor today. He fixed my father’s leg. He’s coming back tomorrow, and the next day. He seems very dedicated to my father.’ (Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert)

Now it’s your turn. Write a tweet – no more than 140 characters – for thefollowing text (s):

____________________; ____________________; ___________________

____________________; ____________________; ___________________

Aim to embed something of the essence of the novel in your tweet, and try to be funny too.