Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Differences in Characters' Moral Dilemmas
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson and practice focuses on characters' moral dilemmas. A moral dilemma occurs when a character has to choose between right and wrong actions, often in the face of...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze the Central Characters in Literary Text/fiction
In this lesson, you will discover some ways that writers reveal the complexity of their characters. By closely analyzing one author's characters, you'll come to see how their words, actions, and interactions with one another can shape a...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Character Map
Help students analyze a particular character with this character map that helps them examine character appearance, actions, and how others respond to them. Ideas for its use are provided.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Indirect vs. Direct Characterization
This lesson introduces indirect (learn about the characters through speech, thoughts, actions, physical description, other character's feelings) and direct characterization (author tells the reader about the character) in fiction...