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Curated OER

Narrative Strategies

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore strategies authors use to make characters and setting seem real to readers. They develop characters and describe setting in original narratives. Students read myths and determine common themes found in myths from...
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Curated OER

1 VS the Mob

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students prepare to become the first to cover four adjacent products, horizontally, vertically or diagonally by selecting factors that make the needed products. They play this game to acquire a healthy appetite for competition between...
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Curated OER

Turning on Your Light

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils identify philanthropy in a character in "To Kill A Mockingbird". They describe the philanthropic acts in the novel and chart their findings. They write about the character and have their classmates peer edit the paper.
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Curated OER

Creating Characters: Voice

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students participate in a drama character building activity. They view and discuss a video segment, discuss the differences between the two girls in the video, and compare the two characters by saying the same phrases while pretending to...
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Curated OER

Charlotte's Web Venn Diagram

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students, together as a class, construct a Venn diagram of characteristics they see in two classmates. Then, they independently create another Venn diagram comparing/contrasting two characters from the story Charlotte's Web. They share...
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Curated OER

History: Fact of Fiction?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students find a historial novel online and distinguish between fiction and nonfiction books. They research three historical events related to their novel and write a letter to a figure from their novel's time period.
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Curated OER

Crayola® Model Magic® Colored Courtly Characters

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Students create a "Noh"-style mask, based on Japanese Noh theatre masks. They experiment with different colors of modeling clay and explore ways to show facial character.
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Curated OER

Writing a Tall Tale

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students study the various aspects of tall tales. They read various tall tales and discuss the characteristics and literature aspects of tall tales. Students write their own unique tall tales.
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Curated OER

Words to Warm the Winter: Keeping Things Organized

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders are in Literary Circles according to the book they've chosen and choose roles.
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Curated OER

I'm a Little Crab Pot

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders read Jacob Have I Loved and explore conflict/ resolution.
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Literacy Head

Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: Character Development

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A collection of images for students to use as writing prompts as they work on character development.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Character Development

For Students 9th Standards
Students read Act II, scene 3 from Romeo and Juliet and explore how Shakespeare develops Friar Lawrence's characteristics.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Character Development

For Students 9th Standards
Read chapters 2- 3 from A Lesson Before Dying in pairs, and discuss Grant's internal and external conflicts.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Unit: Character Development in Historical Fiction: Bud, Not Buddy

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Big Ideas: Authors write historical fiction to show the reader what it was like to live in a certain time period. Readers can use historical fiction to learn about new settings. People are influenced by and react to their setting so you...
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Other

Five Steps to Teaching Solid Character in Students

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The author of this article argues that character development must be taught in schools and that teachers must take steps to make sure students understand what perseverance, determination, empathy, responsibility, respect, and caring are....
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Bright Morning

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Use this activity to delve into the exploration of character development in fiction through the novel "Bright Morning," by Scott O'Dell.
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Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Character Development and Relationships in Hamlet

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A lesson plan relating to Hamlet whose objective is to able to "analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text". Lesson includes a hook, direct instruction, guided practice, and...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Character Development

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson explains how characters develop in fiction writing. W.11-12.3d Sensory/precise lang narratives
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: The Joy Luck Club: Character Development

For Teachers 9th Standards
Students respond to a prompt by writing about how the development of a character can affect the narrative.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: The Joy Luck Club: Character Development

For Students 9th Standards
We will react to part two, chapter two from The Joy Luck Club to explore some character interactions.
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Activity
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: The Joy Luck Club: Character Development

For Students 9th Standards
We will react to part two, chapter two from The Joy Luck Club to explore character interactions.
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Activity
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: The Joy Luck Club: Character Development

For Students 9th Standards
Read part four, chapter two from The Joy Luck Club to explore the character, Ying Ying.
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Activity
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Character Development

For Students 9th Standards
Form claims to prepare for a discussion about how characters Grant and Jefferson have changed throughout the story.
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Activity
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Character Development and Theme

For Students 9th Standards
We will react to chapter twenty-two from A Lesson Before Dying to establish our initial understanding of character and theme.

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