Full page magazine advertisement
Whale Oil
Balleen
Animated movie
Annotated bibliography
Astronomy demonstration
Constellation Ceti
Art Gallery
Block picture story
Bulletin board
Bumper Sticker
that could actually work, not just a drawing on
lined paper or computer paper.
Ceiling Tile
Chart
Choral Reading
Clay Sculpture
Code
Collage
Collection
Comic Strip
Commemorative Postage Stamp
Create poster-size image of stamp and options
and justification for stamp creation
Computer Program
"Moby Dick - The Game"
Navigation Game
Sail from New Bedford to Bikini and back
home. Round Magellan's Cape returning.
Costume
Dress as one of the characters
Don't forget Queequeg's tattoos
Cube (6" or 10")
Crossword Puzzle
Minimum twenty-five words with clues & solution
page submitted on disk
(be sure to add a dozen or so words to fill in
the huge gaps left in canned programs.
Database
Whale species - points of identification
Whaling ship ports
Nations still whaling
Historical whale ships and their fates
Debate
Is whaling moral in today's world?
Demonstration
Knotting and Splicing
Scrimshandy
Detailed Illustration
Diorama
The whaleship with her boats out
The whaleboat in pursuit
The men harpooning the whale
Diary
Not less than a dozen entries
Display
Edible
Editorial Essay -- 500 words - for publication
Is Public Education a Moby Dick?
Is Standardized Testing Captain Ahab?
Etching
Experiment
Is whale oil superior to kerosene for generating
light? (This requires obtaining whale oil.)
(No; I don't know right off where to get any.)
Fact Tile
Fairy Tale
"The Littlest Whale"
"The Youngest Harpooneer"
Family Tree
Ahab's family
Starbuck's family
Fictional Story
The Whale doesn't sink Pequod.
Ahab does kill his whale.
Starbuck and the other mates sieze control of
Pequod.
Film
Dramatize striking the whale.
Ahab soliloquizing about his whale.
Filmstrip
Postal First Day Cachet Cover
See Postal Cachet Page
Flat Stanley
Flip Book
Game
Graph
Hidden Pictgure
Illustrated Story
Interview
Jingle
Joke Book
Journal
Labeled Diagram
Large Scale Drawing
Learning Center
Letter to the Editor
Map with Legend
Maze
Mobile Model
Mosaic
Mural
Museum Exhibit
Misical Instruments
Needlework
Newspaper Story
Non-Fiction Story
Oral Defense
Oral Report
Painting
Pamphlet
Advertising healthful and economic benefits of a
whaling cruise.
Women's clothing manufacturer boasting of quality of
whalebone in their corsets.
Pantomime
Dress as mime (black and white) or
Dress as Character
Papier Mache
Large-scale Whale to hang from ceiling
Petition
Photo Essay
At least a half-dozen 8x10 photos in presentation
binder or document covers or well-presented on
presentation board
Pictures
Picture Storybook for Children
Plaster of Paris Model
Play
Poetry
Series of ten haiku
Series of 5 limerick
Series of 3 sonnets
Political Cartoon
For and Against Whaling
Pop-Up Book
Cacheted Postal Cover Suite
Collection of at least ten covers presented in
document covers and a binder
Power Point Presentation
Storyboard the tale
Essay Ahab's character
Essay the apparent and not-visible conflicts
the Mates are dealing with.
Press Conference
Scenarios -
Ahab survives sinking of his ship and returns
Ahab successfully kills his whale and
completes his voyage, filling his holds
with oil and whalebone, dividing his shares
among his sailors as he said he would.
Interview the foremast hand who first saw the
white whale. What is he going to do with
Prototype
Puppet (one sock puppet - four cardboard puppets)
(one cardboard puppet = 4 paper puppets)
Whale
Ahab, Mates, Ishmael
Puppet Show
Include stage
Puzzle
Rap
Radio Program
Follow format of Adventure Programs of '40s and '50s
(as presented in class)
Rebus Story
Recruiting Poster for Seamen
Recipe
Authentic dishes from period cookbooks
Research Paper
500 words on agreed topic
three parenthetical documentations
One topic, for instance . . .
"Was Ahab a scientific whaleman?"
Riddle
Eight-line minimum
Role Play
Minimum three people, in front of class
Science Fiction Short Story
500-750 words
Star Whales of Beta Ceti . . .
Harpooneers of Tau Ceti . . .
Sculpture
The Whales
The Characters
Sign
Make a wood or metal sign for
Spouter Inn
Any appropriate whaling town business
Skit
Song and dance number from
Slide Show
Slogan
Soliloquy
Memorize a scene in which Ahab invokes the death
of Moby Dick or another dramatic moment .
"Does it burn, men? Does it burn?"
Song
Sailing chanties
Whaling chanties
Sound
Research whalesong
Storytelling - Tall Tales
Survey-- interview at least twenty people
"Was Ahab insane?"
"What is the symbolism of the color white in this
story?"
TAKS Prep
Generate Reading Selections, Questions, and Writing
Prompts
Television Program
Interview Ahab, the Mates, the Harpooneers, Ishmael.
Use a format from television news programs.
Include background music.
Timeline
Plot out the events of the story.
Transparencies
Travel Brochure
Venn Diagram
Characters of Mates -- Starbuck, Stubb, Flask
Ahab and Mates
Ahab and Ishmael
Harpooneers
Website Home Page
New Bedford Whaling Expeditions, Inc.
New Bedford Whale Products, Inc.
Spermaceti Products, Inc.
Ishmael's Tours, Inc.
Ahab's Whale-Watching Cruises
Working Hypothesis
Write a New Law
Video -- See "Film"
See "Skit"
See "Television Program"
See "Role Play"
