Character Analysis Teacher Resources

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Students will have a chance to show their understanding of their favorite fairy tales by building homes for the characters.

During this activity, students will analyze ways in which the character(s) in stories solve problems encountered. In small groups, students will brainstorm possible solutions to realistic problems in order to enhance connections to...

In this self-directed study involving research, composition, and presentation, students analyze Chaucer's characters of The Canterbury Tales as presented in the Prologue. Each student casts a modern personality in the role of one of the...

This lesson allows students to identify the critical components of a story while developing expertise in creating and presenting multimedia presentations.

A graphic organizer designed to help students understand characterization by visualizing a character and describing that character's actions and feelings throughout a story.

A slideshow looking at the character traits and motivations of Brutus, Julius Caesar, and Antony in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar.RL.9-10.3 Analyzing Characters

A character-in-a-box lesson plan in which students choose everyday items and put them in a box to represent facets, traits, or other aspects of a character that can be supported with excerpts from the text.

This guide examines each character's role and motivation.

This lesson introduces how to describe characters from a work of fiction.

For this lesson plan young scholars will demonstrate reading comprehension and writing skills by writing a letter to a character in a story. Lesson plan indicated for 3rd grade and above, but could be adapted for younger grades.

In this downloadable worksheet, students are asked to compare and contrast Brutus and Cassius and how they respond in different situations in each of the five acts of The Tragedy of Julius Cesar.

This lesson introduces book reports and the goals of a book report.

Students will compare and contrast the written version of Pandora's Box with a video clip version. Video clip and worksheets are included.