This lesson explains how characters develop in fiction writing. W.11-12.3d Sensory/precise lang narratives

This reading resource provides vocabulary words with definitions. All words are related to character development and character traits. A link to associated review activities is included.

A nonfiction graphic organizer is available to help students evaluate decisions of people. Students will analyze how characters interact and develop throughout the course of a nonfiction text.

Help students analyze a particular character with this character map that helps them examine character appearance, actions, and how others respond to them. Ideas for its use are provided.

This lesson introduces indirect (learn about the characters through speech, thoughts, actions, physical description, other character's feelings) and direct characterization (author tells the reader about the character) in fiction...

A seven-slide presentation discussing how a character's traits are developed and revealed through action in a literary text.

Watch this short commentary about the character development of the people and creatures from the claymation film "Wallace and Gromit Includes images of how the clay characters were made.

This lesson introduces the connection between characters and plot in fiction writing.

This lesson introduces the connection between characters and theme in fiction writing. RL.9-10.3 Analyzing Characters

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a collection of drawings of the stages and sets of Shakespeare's plays from the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Audio slideshow explains differences in Batman characterizations that have evolved over time as the superhero, first created in 1939, moved across media formats from print, to television, to film. An interesting overview of a favorite...

This lesson introduces the connection between characters and setting in fiction writing.

A printable narrative pyramid where students can record information about a story including the character, setting, problem, main events, and solution. Directions on how to use this type of graphic organize as well as lists of teaching...

George III (1760-1815). The first two Hanoverian kings were ignorant of English politics and obliged to rely on their ministers. Moreover, they cared more for Hanover than for England. But George II had English ideas. He was born and...

Learn about the writer of "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" and her early life -- how she heard family stories as a child, and how she developed the character Paul Edward for "The Land." There is an extensive bibliography of her works and...