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\nInferring About Characters Based on How They Respond to Challenges (Chapter 4: \"Los Higos/Figs\")\n

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\nHow do you know what a character's personality is like if an author doesn't tell you? With a focus on character development in Esperanza Rising, pupils complete a jigsaw activity to analyze the actions of Mama, Abuelita, and Miguel. Once...\n
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\nTeaching the Novel in Context\n

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\nStudents write a context paper.  In this teaching the novel in context lesson, students view a primary sources to recreate the cultural and historical context of the novel.  Students make the connection between the literary...\n
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\nMid-Unit Assessment and Discussing Themes in Esperanza Rising: (Chapter 9: \"Las Ciruelas/PLums\")\n

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\nGive this skills-based assessment halfway through your unit on Esperanza Rising. After a brief review, class members take the test, which asks them to show that they know how to analyze the novel independently. They are asked to...\n
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\nBecause of Winn-Dixie\n

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\nReaders analyze an excerpt from Kate DiCamillo's novel Because of Winn-Dixie. They read silently, and then hear it read aloud. Definitions for underlined vocabulary words are in the margin, and other potentially difficult words...\n
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\nPredicting Actions\n

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\nAnalyze and predict a character's actions in a text by reading the book Julius, Baby of the World and discussing the character's personality. Individuals use a character action chart to record their actions throughout the story, and then...\n
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\nAnalyzing Poetry and Characters\n

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\nStudents investigate historical context by reading poetry.  In this language arts lesson plan, students discover the work of Michael Longley and examine his poem \"Ceasefire.\"  Students identify the sonnets used in the piece and...\n
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\nThe Power of Words in Charlotte's Web\n

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\n\"How can a few good words save a pig's life?\" Posed with this question, your ELD students explore E.B. White's Charlotte's Web in a meaningful, valuable way. By analyzing specific word choice from the book, especially the excerpts...\n
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\nText Structure: Features and Organization\n

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\nTeach learners how to interact with both fiction and non-fiction text with a packet of activities and worksheets. After looking over text structure and the difference in text features between different types of writing,...\n
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\nVoices In the Park\n

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\nExplore the impact a narrator's point of view has on a story with a reading of the children's book, Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne. Written in four different voices, the story is told and retold from different perspectives to...\n
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\nThe True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle: Graphic Organizer\n

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\nAfter completing the first five chapters of The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle By Avi, use direct quotes to make inferences about how Charlotte feels about certain characters. Later, when the novel has concluded, revisit...\n
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\nGrade 9 ELA Module 1, Unit 1, Lesson 2\n

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\nHow can you read a character's tone? What about a narrator's tone? Analyze Karen Russell's \"St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves\" with a lesson that focuses on how word choice can change tone and how tone can affect the development...\n
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\nLatin American Film\n

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\nStudents critique, discuss, and identify characters in a film about Latin America. In this Latin America lesson plan, students watch the film and discuss the film and everyday life.\n
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\nCold Sassy Tree: Multicultural Strategy \n

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\nAnalyze the characters in Olive Ann Burns's Cold Sassy Tree with this assignment. After reading the majority of the novel, class members choose a character and make a visual representation of the character, including any important...\n
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\nIntroduction To Literary Analysis\n

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\nExplore the fascinating ways in which authors use specific literary devices to create interesting and realistic texts. Using non-fiction articles with the subject of rogue waves, an excerpt from The Perfect Storm, by Sebastian Junger,...\n
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\nWater: The Math Link\n

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\nMake a splash with a math skills resource! Starring characters from the children's story Mystery of the Muddled Marsh, several worksheets create interdisciplinary connections between science, language arts, and math. They...\n
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\n\"Et tu, Brute?\" - The Characters, Conflict and Historical context of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar\n

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\nStudents analyze the Shakespearian play, \"Julius Caesar\" in this seven lesson unit. Through readings, hands-on projects, and the study of plot development, comparisons are made to the movie and the historical records available.\n
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\nBeowulf: Songs of Ancient Heroes\n

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\nIntroduce your class to epic heroes with these activities for Beowulf. After watching a video clip, taking notes on heroes, and tracking characteristics of heroism throughout Beowulf, class members retell an episode of Beowulf using a...\n
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\nMaking Connections\n

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\nFourth graders investigate visual imagery to aid reading comprehension. In this reading strategies lesson, 4th graders discover how visual imagery helps in comprehending a story. Students use a reader's notebook to record connections.\n
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\nWhat is the Population Distribution of Cartoon Characters Living On the Pages of Your Newspaper?\n

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\nStudents read various cartoons in their local newspaper and calculate the population demographics, spatial distribution and grouping of the characters. Using this information, they create a population distribution map and share them with...\n
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\nComparing Characters Across Two Short Stories\n

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\nNinth graders listen to a read aloud of two short stories focusing on literary devices. The write about the settings and realism of the stories, and decide each main character handles the conflict he faces with nature.\n
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\nStay Gold, Ponyboy: A Guide to The Outsiders\n

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\nHow to use thematic focus, social context, and creative visuals to teach S. E. Hinton's timeless classic.\n
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\nAnatomy of a Scene\n

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\nCasting, setting, context, frame, camera angle, lighting, soundtrack. Every choice a writer or director makes is conscious. Here's a worksheet that asks readers/viewers to examine these choices and consider how they are used to to...\n
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\nIt's Your Opinion\n

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\nEveryone has a different opinion about the characters they read about in books. Have your class explore forming an opinion and finding evidence to support it as they read and discuss what they think about a particular character. They...\n
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\nThe Winter’s Tale: Facebook Strategy\n

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\nTo demonstrate their understanding of characterization in The Winter's Tale, groups create a Facebook profile for one of the characters in Shakespeare's play.\n
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