This is a bundled mini unit that contains the following:
1. Original text and an audio reading of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem: The Kraken (mp3 file)

2. “Visualize” activity with the Tennyson poem

3 Audio of Pontoppidian’s historical account of the Kraken (mp3 file)

4. reading comprehension and art activity with this historical narrative

5. kraken poem writing activity

6. Links to the kraken in movies and giant squid movies provided in a separate file

7. compare two versions of movie krakens (venn diagram for descriptive writing activity)
Take this unit as far as you want, hopefully it will be a springboard for many different
projects in writing, and visual arts.