Friday, September 27, 2024

FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON - “Analyzing Character Development: Lesson Plan for Any Text”

by Stacey Lloyd
7th - 10th Grade


Students will analyze how characters develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme. Can be used with ANY literary text.


This lesson is just one of the 50+ lessons contained in my Design Your Own Literature Unit: Resources for Any Text product: a vast library of ready-made lesson plans which can be adapted for absolutely any literary text. CHECK IT OUT NOW!


OVERVIEW

This lesson can be used in any literary unit. The focus of this lesson is to examine how students’ opinions of characters have changed over the course of reading a text. Through this exploration, they will analyze how these responses reflect a character’s development. This prompts students to consider the author’s choices in character development and understand the deeper impact on the overall story and its underlying themes.

CONTENTS

  • Detailed, step-by-step lesson plan
  • "At first I thought..." Graphic Organizer
  • Literary Analysis Writing Planning Page

WHEN TO USE: Towards the end of/after reading a text, so that students can chart how characters have changed.

IDEAL FOR: Any text - novel or play.


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