Utah Education Network
Uen: 2nd Grade Act. 11: Character Sketch
This lesson engages students in describing the main character from Patricia Palacco's book, My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother. Students will analyze a picture of the main character and the teacher will write all of the students'...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Tale of Text Messages: A Character Study of a Tale of Two Cities
Students engage in a character study of the numerous figures created by Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities. They compare and contrast several forms of communication: email, text message, and telephone; complete a character study...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Character Analysis Through Job Placement
Contains plans for four lessons that ask students to write resumes and interview questions for characters in Tennessee William's "The Glass Menagerie," although the lessons can be easily adapted to other works as well. In addition to...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Studying Character in Drama
Online lesson that allows students to study and follow a Shakespearean character throughout a play, analyzing their actions, traits and dialogue as clues to characterization.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Examining Character Motivation
During this unit, young scholars will ask "Why do we do what we do?" They will read different novels to analyze character motivation. Throughout the unit they will debate whether they think characters made smart choices and why. They...
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Nz Ministry of Education: What a Character
Students will explore characters created by authors and identify personality traits, and then apply these ideas to their own characters using language skills identified to convey these traits. Students will write a character sketch,...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Become a Character
In this online lesson plan and activity, students actually "become" a character from a novel in their analysis of characterization. The lesson plan uses the Scarlet Letter, but any novel can be used. RL.9-10.3 Analyzing Characters,...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Story Character Homepage
Online lesson which allows for middle schoolers to create an electronic "Home page," for a specific character when reading a class novel. Students research and create web pages, then present findings to the class.
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Scholastic
Scholastic: Richard Iii Character Study: Determined to Be a Villain [Pdf]
Four PDF formated pages with stand-alone lessons about a couple of passages from Shakespeare's "Richard III." Two pages are lesson plans, and two pages are handouts.
Read Works
Read Works: Grade 1: Three Lesson Unit: Character: Actions, Feelings, Looks
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans, based on David Shannon's books No, David!, David Gets in Trouble, and David Goes to School. Students learn how to utilize text and picture clues to determine and describe...
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library: Lesson Plans: A Boxful of Character
A character-in-a-box lesson plan in which students choose everyday items and put them in a box to represent facets, traits, or other aspects of a character that can be supported with excerpts from the text.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Actions Speak Louder Than Words
After hearing and discussing an excerpt from Sharon Creech's Walk Two Moons, students will plan to create a unique description of a character that uses memorable actions that "show" a person's character. They will brainstorm verbs that...
Yale University
Yale National Initiative:take a Stab at It: Exploring Character in Julius Caesar
This curriculum unit guides learners in a deep investigation of the characters in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, and in developing an appreciation of Shakespeare's talent for language and his insightful understanding of human...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Reader Response in Hypertext: Making Personal Connections
Students write a narrative of place, a character sketch, an extended metaphor poem and a persuasive essay then link all four texts to quotations they have selected from a novel.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Connotation, Character, and Color Imagery in "The Great Gatsby"
Contains plans for lessons that examine the use of color in "The Great Gatsby." After studying the book, students write character analysis papers discussing the colors associated with the characters. In addition to objectives and...
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Multimedia Hero Analysis
In this 9-12 instructional activity, students will analyze the positive character traits of heroes as depicted in music, art, and literature. They will gain an understanding of how cultures and societies have produced folk, military,...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Let's Get to Know Big Al
During this lesson the students will read and discuss the story Big Al, by Andrew Clements. Students will identify the story elements of Big Al and complete a story element map. Students will also do a character analysis of Big Al.
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Pixton: Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
This lesson on The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is available with a free trial registration. Students use the provided illustrated characters and props to explore character, plot, and theme.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Lights, Camera, Action: Interviewing a Book Character
Students get the inside scoop on a story when they create interview questions and answers for characters in the books they read.
National Geographic
National Geographic: The Politics of Place Naming
Learners use an online geographic information system (GIS) to uncover the geographic and social context of streets named after Martin Luther King, Jr. They map street locations to identify regional patterns in honoring King, consider...
Can Teach
Can Teach: Dear Character
For this lesson plan learners will demonstrate reading comprehension and writing skills by writing a letter to a character in a story. Lesson plan indicated for 3rd grade and above, but could be adapted for younger grades.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: I Am Poems
Learners will write and illustrate I Am poems. An I Am poem is an 18-line, three-stanza poem which students write about themselves, or a real or fictitious character. When all learners have presented their poems to their classmates, the...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Reading Response Activities for Geronimo Stilton Book Series
Practice reading and comprehensions skills using the Geronimo Stilton book series. Choose activities from areas such as character studies, analysis of words and pictures, plot and making predictions. Reproducibles are included.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Who Do You Think You Are?
Students will demonstrate an understanding of character through improvisation. Students will imagine and clearly describe their characters through performance. They will relate a character's actions and emotions and create a setting.
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