Helpful for a unit on Walter Dean Myers' Monster, or any novel that you are teaching, a graphic organizer prompts learners to compare and contrast different character traits. The first box has one set of lines to jot down what two characters have in common, while the second part of the worksheet provides two boxes to describe how they are different.

Concepts

compare and contrast, metaphors, brainstorming, compare and contrast essays

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use with any text when studying character development
• Have kids complete the graphic organizer in a poetry unit or when studying metaphors
• A good addition to a language arts unit about character foils

Classroom Considerations

• Graphic organizer is simple, but serves its purpose as a way to delineate common and different features of two characters
• There are grammar mistakes in the instructions

Pros

• Versatile and easy to use for younger learners as well as middle or high schoolers

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.6.1 RL.6.3 RL.7.1 RL.8.1 RL.8.3