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Character in a Box

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Partners choose, research, and analyze fictional or historical characters and design character life boxes to represent them. They also compose a rhyme royal, which they understand inductively by deconstructing examples. Based largely on the book/play The Shakespeare Stealer, but it's not necessary to complete this creative project.

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props, rhyme schemes, rhyming

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character life box, props, rhyme scheme, shakespeare stealer, rhyme royal, english language arts
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Grade
5th - 9th
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English Language Arts
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3 days
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