For this lesson, portraits provide inspiration for students to create character descriptions. Then, basic dance techniques are used to express the traits, motivations, and feelings of the characters as students work collaboratively to...

Portrait and short profile of the career of Tyler Perry, a playwright, actor, producer, and director. Perry developed and played the character of Madea, a comical grandmother, in the hit show Diary of a Mad Black Woman, as well as in...

Students learn about Deaf Culture through presentations, cultural experts, fieldwork, and reading fiction and non-fiction books. Then students use the information they have learned to create a realistic character and write a character...

Design your own character in the style of Japanese Anime cartoons. You control the choices of all the details including wrinkles and makeup. Save them and print them out if you like.

Authored by a professor of Russian language and literature at Middlebury College, this site has much to offer the student of Dostoesky's novel The Devils. The site contains plot summaries, character analyses, and links to related...

This is a collection of four video lessons and a teacher's guide about Harper Lee and her masterpiece "To Kill a Mockingbird."

Analysis of Hiram Power's marble-sculpted portrait of Benjamin Franklin, which resides in the Senate wing of the U.S. Capitol. Made in 1862, the sculpture convincingly captures what many consider to be Franklin's essential character.

This fine example of wooden statuary, found at Saqqara, shows Sheikh El-Balad as a young man with a tall slim body, simply and elegantly sculptured. Although the inlaid eyes, the serious mouth and rather haughty bearing, the portrait...