Uglies

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.

“Tally’s Maturity Morpho”

In this activity, students use physical or digital media to create an image (or “morpho”) of who Tally has become by the end of the novel.

In the novel, Tally makes “morphos,” or computer-generated images, of what she may look like as a pretty.

• Review how Tally behaves at the beginning of Uglies. It may help to make a list of traits/adjectives you would use to describe her.
• In 2-3 sentences, describe how Tally’s values and goals change after her encounter with Special Circumstances.
• In 2-3 sentences, describe how Tally ends the novel and what causes her to volunteer to take the cure.
• Drawing on your notes, make a “morpho” representing who Tally is at the end of the novel. This can be either a physical drawing (or painting, collage, etc.) or a digital representation. You may use literal or symbolic images to support your “morpho” so long as you are using evidence from the text to support your choices.

Teaching Suggestion: This is an opportunity for students to consider how Tally has grown over the course of the novel.