This looks great Ryan, thanks for sharing!
Also, in our discussions outside of this forum, you, Katy and I discussed some other ideas for these chapters, which can tie-in to the Facebook-based profile idea. We discussed mapping out the buildings, as well as the grounds between the apartment and the mansion, where students could post updates on their profile posters letting people know where they are in each chapter - or they could post on other students' posters, saying they saw them or someone else in a different location!
The class could create one big map for the whole class to keep track of, or the students could create individual maps for their characters.
We also discussed lesson plans for a week's worth of vocabulary from all of these seven chapters - but could not think of the best way to present vocabulary that doesn't seem boring or tired.
What came up were ideas to use the ball game - where students toss around a ball that has been stuck with a bunch of pieces of paper with vocabulary words on them, and then define the word beneath their left thumb. This would be done at the end of the week, to review vocabulary learned over the week. However, when trying to think of how to present the vocabulary without just listing off the words and their definitions, we couldn't think of too many options. Does anyone have any fun suggestions that they've used in class or heard of?