Character Analysis Teacher Resources

Weekly posting of a work of fiction, poem, character sketch, or essay written by a notable American author. Readers can choose to subscribe to the weekly stories or look through and read stories from a list of previous postings.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This PowerPoint presentation contains art pieces that deal with different emotions. Students will analyze the art pieces and the associated emotions.

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...

The highly-respected Reading Rockets program offers both teachers and students a toolkit of ways to connect more actively with the materials they read. Some of these techniques are specifically for fiction-reading, others are designed...

The teacher edition of a textbook chapter on Act 4 of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Students will analyze the plot, make and verify predictions, and analyze characters. Includes explanations of vocabulary with accompanying text from the...

View, read and discuss Conan Doyle's tale, "The Hound of Baskersvilles," and compare and contrast the story with the film. Explore the genres and elements of mystery and suspense that are present, and analyze characters, especially...

A guideline for helping students to write their own fairy tales. This is a fun activity that will help students to analyze a literary style and follow a pattern.

This unit focues on life and death, text-to-text connections, archetypes, symbols, and allusions, and writing in a non-native language. It features "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, and...

In 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 by...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This site contains a downloadable worksheet for a character profile booklet.

Students get the inside scoop on a story when they create interview questions and answers for characters in the books they read.

Students will write and illustrate I Am poems. An I Am poem is an 18-line, three-stanza poem which students write about themselves, or a real or fictitious character. When all students have presented their poems to their classmates, the...

A lengthy examination of the novel's main characters is the foundation of this seven page .pdf guide.

Check out this informative site about "A Long Way From Chicago" by Richard Peck and learn about small-town life during the Depression in seven short stories for the years 1929 through 1942.

This reading guide for "A Long Way From Chicago and a Year Down Yonder" by Richard Peck takes a comprehensive look at the author and his work, seven stories about small-town life during the Depression.

What do you know about Richard Peck's life and work as an author? Use this informative site to learn more about this young adult author and to find resources for lesson plans.

Read chapter summaries of William Golding's novel, "Lord of the Flies." These summaries each include information about the chapter's plot and comments on the meaning behind Golding's writing.

Nasreddin is a famous character (and perhaps real person) in Arabic folktales -- he's wise, and funny; sometimes the sage and sometimes the trickster. This page, part of larger site on Azerbaijan, provides a nice sampling of Nasreddin...

This lesson plan examines the changes and developments in characters which appear in a series. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.

A plot overview, character list, character analysis, themes and symbols, chapter summary and analysis, quotations, a quiz, and more for Night by Elie Wiesel.

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a series of graphic organizers for reading students. Forms are provided for plot, character analysis, reading logs, and reading responses.

This site provides a series of quotations, character analysis, themes, plot analysis, and quizzes from the novel that represent such themes as revenge, compassion, sin and free will.

Curtain Up provides a review of a production of a play by William Shakespeare, "All's Well That Ends Well." Includes character analysis and the aims of the director.

Read about each of the major characters in The Great Gatsby. An in-depth character analysis is provided with an additional reference to each character's time line in the novel.