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Narrative Strategies
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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1 VS the Mob
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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Turning on Your Light
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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Creating Characters: Voice
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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Charlotte's Web Venn Diagram
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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History: Fact of Fiction?
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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Crayola® Model Magic® Colored Courtly Characters
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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Writing a Tall Tale
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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Words to Warm the Winter: Keeping Things Organized
Fifth graders are in Literary Circles according to the book they've chosen and choose roles.
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I'm a Little Crab Pot
Third graders read Jacob Have I Loved and explore conflict/ resolution.
Literacy Head
Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: Character Development
A collection of images for students to use as writing prompts as they work on character development.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Character Development
Students read Act II, scene 3 from Romeo and Juliet and explore how Shakespeare develops Friar Lawrence's characteristics.
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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.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Unit: Character Development in Historical Fiction: Bud, Not Buddy
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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Five Steps to Teaching Solid Character in Students
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....
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Bright Morning
Use this activity to delve into the exploration of character development in fiction through the novel "Bright Morning," by Scott O'Dell.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Character Development and Relationships in Hamlet
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: Character Development
This lesson explains how characters develop in fiction writing. W.11-12.3d Sensory/precise lang narratives
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: The Joy Luck Club: Character Development
Students respond to a prompt by writing about how the development of a character can affect the narrative.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: The Joy Luck Club: Character Development
We will react to part two, chapter two from The Joy Luck Club to explore some character interactions.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: The Joy Luck Club: Character Development
We will react to part two, chapter two from The Joy Luck Club to explore character interactions.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: The Joy Luck Club: Character Development
Read part four, chapter two from The Joy Luck Club to explore the character, Ying Ying.
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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.
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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.
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