Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Character Conflicts
React to chapters twenty-five and twenty-six from A Lesson Before Dying to establish our initial understanding of the conflicts of the characters.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Character, Tone and Theme
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...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: What Makes Us Human?
Ninth graders read chapters 18-27 of A Lesson Before Dying and examine how the interactions among the characters and the lessons learned by these characters develops a theme. Students also view the video, "Why Your Worst Deeds Don't...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Character Development
Form claims to prepare for a discussion about how characters Grant and Jefferson have changed throughout the story.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Character Conflicts
React to chapter twenty-seven from A Lesson Before Dying to establish your initial understanding of the conflict between the characters Grant and the Reverend.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Character Development
Form claims to prepare for a discussion about the lessons Grant and Jefferson have learned about humanity in the first seven chapters.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Character Relationships
React to chapters 14- 15 from A Lesson Before Dying to establish our initial understanding of the relationship between the characters.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Character Interactions
React to chapter eight from A Lesson Before Dying to establish your initial understanding of how Matthew Antoine influenced Grant.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying
Ninth graders will be introduced to Maslow's hierarchy of needs and will explore how this hierarchy relates to the needs that humans have. Students will also be introduced to background information about the South during Jim Crow through...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Characters and Theme
Gather and organize evidence to prepare for a discussion about the similarities between Grant and Jefferson and their placement on Maslow's hierarchy. This will help us understand how Gaines is using characters to develop a theme.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Character Development
Read chapters 2- 3 from A Lesson Before Dying in pairs, and discuss Grant's internal and external conflicts.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Character Development and Theme
We will react to chapter twenty-two from A Lesson Before Dying to establish our initial understanding of character and theme.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Tone
React to chapter twenty from A Lesson Before Dying to explore how the events affect Grant and how they contribute to the tone of the text.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: What Makes Us Human?
Ninth graders read chapter eighteen of A Lesson Before Dying. Students will deepen their understanding about the lessons that Grant and Jefferson are learning about humanity by rereading sections of the text and answering questions....
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Character Development
Read chapter eighteen from A Lesson Before Dying in pairs and analyze the development of characters.
Google
Louisiana Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Grade 5: The Birchbark House: Unit Files
A Google Drive folder with instructional presentations, discussion questions, student activities, and assessments for the book, The Birchbark House.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Creating a Role Drama to Analyze Characters in a Text [Pdf]
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...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Character Choreography [Pdf]
In this lesson, portraits provide inspiration for learners 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...
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Literary Terms a E
The first of three pages of simple definitions for literary terms. This page, A - E, covers forty-four terms from "Allegory" to "Exposition."
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Foil
This is a glossary entry for the term "Foil" including definition and examples.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Integrity
In addition to providing a definition of "integrity," this article has information on the various ways in which integrity manifests in popular culture, law, and science. Contains several links to articles on related topics.
Curated OER
Mac Millan: Describe Characters in Stories
This learning module focuses on characters in stories including their actions, changes in character behaviors, and describing character traits. It includes an example passage with questions and answers and a practice passage with questions.
Northern Virginia Community College
Introduction to Theatre Six Parts of a Play Character
This site tells of Aristotle's six parts of a play. It goes into detail on the Character and the different terms that describe different character types.
Other
Ed u.com: Three Fundamentals of Selling Your Message
This site is provided for by Ed-U.com. Based on the Greek ideas of ethos, logos, and pathos the writer addresses how to adequately persuade an audience.