Lumen Learning
Lumen: Reading and Interpreting Literary Texts: How to Analyze a Short Story
This lesson focuses on analyzing a short story including all of the elements of a short story such as setting, plot and structure, and characterization.
Victorian Web
The Victorian Web: George Eliot
This resource about Victorian author George Eliot provides a detailed biography, bibliography as well as essays about themes, characterization, narrative and more.
Victorian Web
The Victorian Web: George Meredith
From a detailed biography, list of works, and political history to essays about themes, setting, and characterization, this site offers an excellent variety of resources related to Victorian author George Meredith.
Victorian Web
The Victorian Web: Anthony Trollope
This site from The Victorian Web features a detailed biography, social and political history, and list of works to information about setting, characterization, themes, and imagery. This site provides a variety of excellent resources on...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Story, Identity, Unity
Delve into the art of storytelling in this self-guided unit. Multiple topics are covered such as literary genres, the 7 elements of fiction, figurative language, theme, characterization, etc. At the end of the unit, write your own flash...
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abcteach
Abcteach: Mystery Book Report Form [Pdf]
Great printable page that helps students write a mystery book report form. Calls attention to characterization and clues.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Stock Characters
This slideshow lesson focuses on stock characters; it defines the term, explains characteristics of stock characters, and provides examples from literature.
Other
Steilacoom Historical School District No. 1: Dramatic Justice [Pdf]
For this lesson unit, students investigate how justice is perceived and addressed in different cultures and times by examining literature from around the world. Texts examined include: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, A Sport of Nature...
Other
Building Characters With Adversity
Extensive and very interesting article advising the reader on how to develop characters through adversity.
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Shakespeare's Universalism [Pdf]
In this lesson, students explore how Shakespeare was able to write in a way that his characters seemed to express real emotions and will look at the literary devices he used. An extension activity has them analyze what William Hazlitt...
British Library
British Library: Dickens's Great Expectations: The Gothic, the Uncanny
This activity will introduce the idea of the uncanny and explore its expression within the narrative form of Charles Dickens's novel "Great Expectations".
Victorian Web
The Victorian Web: Rudyard Kipling
The Victorian Web provides information from social and political history and a detailed biography to essays about characterization, themes and more, this site offers an excellent variety of resources related to Victorian author Rudyard...
University of Virginia
"Modernism and the Modern Novel"
The Electronic Labyrinth provides a concise overview of Modernism with a nod to authors and works that characterize the movement.
Universal Teacher
Moore's Teacher Resources: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
A site from the UK. Includes very detailed characterizations from the novel, as well as thematic analysis on topics such as marriage and societal standards.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Jason and the Golden Fleece
Explore characterization, plot and setting and compare these elements in mythology and modern works of literature, film and television. Retell myths in modern settings or modern-day stories using a mythological Greek setting. While this...
Victorian Web
The Victorian Web: Christina Rossetti
This site from The Victorian Web provides information including social and political history and a detailed biography, essays about gender matters, theme, characterization, and more. This site contains a variety of excellent resources...
Victorian Web
The Victorian Web: Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
A portal to biographical information and essays related to Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) and her novel "Jane Eyre," including information about social and political history, characterization, themes, genre, setting, imagery, and more.
Victorian Web
The Victorian Web: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
This site from The Victorian Web provides information from a detailed biography and social and political history to essays about narrative, characterization, and more. This site provides a variety of excellent resources relating to...
PBS
Pbs: Multiple Methods of Reading Instruction
This article surveys three strategies to incorporate into classroom repertoire. They include guided reading, choral reading, and readers' theater.
Caro Clarke
Loving Your Characters Too Much
This article is the fifth in a series that is designed to help new authors with their new novels. This lesson focuses on your main character and what happens when that character lacks character flaws.
Caro Clarke
Caro Clarke: What Is Conflict?
This is the sixth in a series of articles designed to help the new writer with their novel. This article focuses on conflict and how it effects the characters and the plot of the story. W.11-12.3a Narratives
Caro Clarke
Describing Your Characters Through Their Actions
This is the tenth in a series of articles designed to help the new novel author. This article focuses on how to develop characters through their actions instead of simply relying on dialogue and description of thoughts. W.11-12.3d...
Fun Trivia
Fun Trivia: Short Story Elements Trivia Quiz
This site shares a short story elements trivia game. Examples of short story elements are applied to high school classic literature.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Short Story Unit Applying Literary Terms
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a review and assessment of a collection of short stories. The following literary terms are applied to the stories: plot structure, types of characters, characterization, irony,...