Exploring+feelings+through+skits

I think it would be interesting to reenact a few of the scenes with students to get them to identify with the characters and their emotional journey - which can best be done while sitting in someone else's shoes. Also, I think this could help to do right off the bat so that students realize H as a person, an emotionally struggling person, whether it is with his sexuality or not and not just a "weird, gay story". I think it would be fine to mix up the genders of actors too because I do not think the whole point was the boy - boy gender, I think the issue of Who Am I? as my own boy/person aside from my sexual preference was much bigger and more compelling.

So I think an obvious bullying scene, maybe the first day meeting the roommates. Have all students comment on how they think H is feeling walking up to the dorm, after meeting his roommates... What evidence contributes to your thoughts?

The scene where Reese is blackmailing H and wanting to go with him to see this mysterious boy.

Any number of scenes with Finn and H, like the prep for their journey where H is moved by Finn taking a boat rather than the one-man kayak (By the way, I think he needed to feel loved and did feel loved in this scene having nothing to do with romance. But that is just my opinion!) and the whole cave scene. Like I said before have a male and female student do this scene or change it up a couple times - do feelings change? Does the experience change? Do you think it would've for H had he known about Finn's gender? Again explore each character's feelings and find evidence from the text to support.

Like we've done in class - it would be interesting to have actors and directors helping the actors with how to say their lines/actions based on close reading of the text.