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Amelia Bedelia Up Close! Closely Reading a Classic Story
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Through a close reading of "Amelia Bedelia", students reread the material to discuss text-dependent questions, promoting deep thinking about the text and its characters.

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English Language Arts
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06/05/2024
Become a Character: Adjectives, Character Traits, and Perspective
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Students "become" one of the major characters in a book and describe themselves and other characters, using lists of accurate, powerful adjectives.

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English Language Arts
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06/05/2024
Beyond the Story: A Dickens of a Party
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Students attend a 19th Century Victorian party to celebrate Scrooge's new outlook on life. They research characters from Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" and assume those personas for the party.

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Arts and Humanities
Literature
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06/05/2024
Book Report Alternative: A Character's Letter to the Editor
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Students write a persuasive letter to the editor of a newspaper from a selected fictional character's perspective, focusing on a specific issue or situation explored in the novel.

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English Language Arts
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Date Added:
06/05/2024
Book Report Alternative: Characters for Hire! Studying Character in Drama
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In this alternative to the traditional book report, students respond to a play they have read by creating a resume for one of its characters.

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English Language Arts
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Date Added:
06/05/2024
Book Report Alternative: Creating a Childhood for a Character
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Students explore familiar literary characters, usually first encountered as adults, but whose childhood stories are only told later. Students then create childhoods for adult characters from books of their choice.

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English Language Arts
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06/05/2024
Charting Characters for a More Complete Understanding of the Story
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Character Perspective Charting allows students to compare multiple characters and their points of view to better understand a story.

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Elementary English Language Arts
English Language Arts
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Date Added:
06/05/2024
Constructing New Understanding Through Choral Readings of Shakespeare
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After reading "The Tempest" or any other play by William Shakespeare, students work in small groups to plan, compose, and perform a choral reading based on a character or theme.

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Arts and Humanities
Dance
Theater
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Date Added:
06/05/2024
Coyote and Mouse Make Snow
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In this lesson, students are given a description of tribal sovereignty and federal recognition specific to the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation. They will also be introduced to characteristics of a trickster tale and then write a short story to activate their prior knowledge of specific words. The whole class will then read "Coyote and Mouse Make Snow," a trickster tale shared by the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation. Students will identify the characters, problems, and solutions within the story by filling out a handout. Possible extensions tie in with the Science Core.

Subject:
Elementary English Language Arts
Literature
Social Studies
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Author:
Brenda Beyal
Lorna Loy
Date Added:
03/22/2022
Creating  Psychological Profiles of Characters in To Kill a Mockingbird
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Students explore the motivation behind characters' actions in "To Kill A Mockingbird" by creating psychological profiles for characters from the novel.

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Arts and Humanities
Psychology
Social Science
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Date Added:
06/05/2024
DIRECT & INDIRECT CHARACTERIZATION
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This lesson plan reviews direct and indirect characterizations, which students can use to aid them in writing a character analysis short essay.  Students will be introduced to the S.T.E.A.L. method, which they will use to identify a character's traits, motives, and physiological makeup.  This resource has been created for secondary levels. This lesson plan can be used to supplement any Literary Element Unit.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Literature
Secondary English Language Arts
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Activity/Lab
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Author:
Travis Foster
Date Added:
07/26/2022
Defining Moments: Charting Character Evolution in Lord of the Flies
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Savagery, treachery, lost innocenceÉ "Lord of the Flies" is rife with character development. Use this lesson to help students chart the character changes of Ralph and Jack, both in groups and individually.

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English Language Arts
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Date Added:
06/05/2024
Demonstrating Understanding of Richard Wright's Rite of Passage
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Students use the elements of persuasion for a specific audience to demonstrate their understanding of Richard Wright's accessible and engaging coming-of-age novel, "Rite of Passage.

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English Language Arts
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Date Added:
06/05/2024
Describe That Face: An Interactive Writing Game
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Students write descriptions of characters, incorporate new vocabulary words, practice using simile and metaphor, engage in peer editing, and post their revised descriptions on the walls for a matching game.

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Arts and Humanities
English Language Arts
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Activity/Lab
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Date Added:
06/05/2024
Developing Characterization in Raymond Carver's "A Small, Good Thing"
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Students read Raymond Carver's story "A Small, Good Thing," focusing on characterization in order to develop one of the static characters: the hit-and-run driver who causes Scotty's death more fully.

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English Language Arts
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Activity/Lab
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ReadWriteThink
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ReadWriteThink
Date Added:
06/05/2024