Compare and contrast the characters in John Boyne's The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Using a Venn diagram, kids write in different traits to describe each person, and note their shared characteristics in the middle section.

Concepts

reading comprehension, venn diagrams, characterization, character traits, the holocaust

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use the activity with any novel or short story in your curriculum
• Project the document onto a whiteboard and have kids fill out traits in dry erase marker
• Have kids keep the worksheet in a literature or language arts binder during the novel unit, and update throughout the book
• Encourage kids to compare these characters with characters from different books about the Holocaust 

Classroom Considerations

• One of the blank worksheets has two character names on it; you can white them out before copying if you want kids to select their own characters

Pros

• A great addition to a unit about the Holocaust
• Versatile and easy to use

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.7.3 RL.8.3 RL.9-10.3 RL.11-12.3