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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Story Character Homepage

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Online lesson which allows for young scholars 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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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Differences in Characters' Moral Dilemmas

For Students 9th - 10th
[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...
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Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Character Development and Relationships in Hamlet

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A lesson plan relating to Hamlet whose objective is to able to "analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text". Lesson includes a hook, direct instruction, guided practice, and...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze the Central Characters in Literary Text/fiction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Creating a Role Drama to Analyze Characters in a Text [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders will use drama to analyze characters in the text A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon. After an interactive read-aloud of the text, 2nd graders will take on roles of characters in the story. They will step into a role...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Differences in Characters' Moral Dilemmas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Read works of fiction from various cultures and countries and analyze the differences in the characters' moral dilemmas.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Character, Tone and Theme

For Teachers 9th Standards
Ninth graders will read chapters 28- 31 of A Lesson Before Dying. They participate in a whole-class discussion about the changes that occur in the main characters and how these changes relate to lessons being learned. Students will...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Character Development

For Students 9th Standards
Read chapter eighteen from A Lesson Before Dying in pairs and analyze the development of characters.
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TES Global

Tes: Emotions

For Students 1st - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This PowerPoint presentation contains art pieces that deal with different emotions. Students will analyze the art pieces and the associated emotions.
eBook
Other

Brentville District High School: The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act Iv [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The teacher edition of a textbook chapter on Act 4 of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Students will analyze the plot, make and verify predictions, and analyze characters. Includes explanations of vocabulary with accompanying text from the...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Character Map

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
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.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze the Central Characters in Literary Text/fiction

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
Learn how the central characters' qualities influence theme and resolution of the central conflict.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Hound of the Baskervilles 1: Meet Sherlock Holmes

For Students 9th - 10th
Students investigate the iconic and much-beloved character of Sherlock Holmes, as well as the mystery genre, in this excerpt from Masterpiece's 2002 version of The Hound of the Baskervilles. As students are introduced to Holmes, they use...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Hound of the Baskervilles

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a collection of three media galleries from MASTERPIECE: "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Arthur Conan Doyle. It introduces the famous character of Sherlock Holmes and the mystery/horror genre.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Arthur Conan Doyle Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
Investigate the iconic character of Sherlock Holmes, as well as the mystery/horror genre that Arthur Conan Doyle helped to develop, by examining the film adaptation of "The Hound of the Baskervilles." The collection includes three media...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: The Hound of the Baskervilles

For Teachers 9th - 10th
View, read and discuss Conan Doyle's tale, "The Hound of Baskersvilles," and compare and contrast the story with the film. Explore the genres and elements of mystery and suspense that are present, and analyze characters, especially...
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Other

Steilacoom Historical School District No. 1: Dramatic Justice [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this instructional activity unit, young scholars investigate how justice is perceived and addressed in different cultures and times by examining literature from around the world. Texts examined include: The Tragedy of Romeo and...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Development of Characters Through Literary Devices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students learn how writers develop characters through a variety of techniques: narration, dialogue, interaction with other characters, interaction with setting, and characters' thoughts. RL.9-10.3 Analyzing Characters,...
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Indirect vs. Direct Characterization

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Characters and Theme

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces the connection between characters and theme in fiction writing. RL.9-10.3 Analyzing Characters
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Peep Observes the Moon: Interactive Storybook

For Students K - 1st
Students will observe how the Moon appears in the sky when viewed on different days. The animated interactive storybook is used to give students an opportunity to interact with a character-guided observational experience of the Moon as...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Poems

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson students listen to three modern songs that capture the symbolism in words--"Yesterday" by the Beatles, "Today" by the Smashing Pumpkins, and "Tomorrow" from the Annie Soundtrack. They will analyze their own experiences...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Giving Credit

For Students 2nd - 8th
This life lesson will prepare learners for the world of credit. "In this lesson, you will analyze the creditworthiness of people who want to borrow. You will also learn how to identify ways to establish your creditworthiness."
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Characters and Staging in Drama

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will analyze how different playwrights characterize, or develop, their protagonists and antagonists through the dialogue and staging of their plays.

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