character development

This is a one-text, one-week module that aims to take students through the process of looking at a character's development over time. It is focused on the third Common Core Reading Standard for Literature (RL3), which expects 6th grade students to "describe how a particular story's or drama's...

The assignment starts with students finding an object (a lost article of clothing, a key, an earring, someone’s shopping list), which they will then use to develop a short piece of fiction.  Their goal is to use the author’s tools of characterization, plot structure, sensory imagery and...

Second grade students will learn to compare characters in a story by reading text and examining illustrations to determine how each character responds to events in the story. Students will also suggest reasons for the differences in each character's response based on what they have learned about...

Students use Sandra Cisneros' "The House on Mango Street" and Anne Frank’s "The Diary of a Young Girl" to write a literary essay that compares and contrasts the characters Esperanza and Anne Frank.

The paper should answer at least one of the following questions, and cite evidence from the...

In this task, students will answer the following essential question: How do writers communicate ideas through literature?

Students will begin by reading an America novel and focusing on the elements of the text — characters, ideas, symbols, etc.— they find most interesting....

This module draws from a National Endowment for the Humanities unit plan for Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" and blends this focus with additional study of three of Chopin's short stories: "The Story of an Hour," "Desiree's Child,"and "The Storm."

Through the study of one author, students...

In this module middle school students analyze Daniel Keyes' short story, "Flowers for Algernon".

This module acts as a springboard into literary analysis by having students study how an author reveals a character's persona over the course of the text. Further, it provides an opportunity...