Chimney sweeps, street urchins, and Queen Victoria — very different characters living in the very same era. A collection of images enhances any lesson on Victorian England, making a great addition to classroom decoration, slideshows, or...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a slide show lesson on Commedia Dell'Arte and stock characters including a close activity on Commedia Dell'Arte, a definition of stock characters with examples, modern day stock characters, and...

This slideshow lesson focuses on stock characters; it defines the term, explains characteristics of stock characters, and provides examples from literature.

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

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

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

This slideshow lesson introduces and defines round and flat characters in fiction writing.

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

[Free Registration/Login Required] This slide show introduces the major stock characters in Commedia Dell'Arte, a form of theatre characterized by masked "types," improvised dialogue, and a cast of colorful stock characters which began...

This slideshow focuses on authors defining characters through description such as features, dress, mannerisms, emotions, and objects. It provides several examples from Bram Stoker's "Dracula."

A slideshow describing the elements of plot as well as the importance of dialogue as it interacts with different plot elements.

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

This resource gives a timeline of Chinese dynasties along with the Chinese characters that represent them, as well as a list of emperors for each dynasty.

A chart showing the different characters in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar and the relationships between them.

In this slideshow tutorial, students will review the reading strategies of imagining and visualizing to assist with interpreting stories' characters, events, and settings. Students are given an explanation of the strategies and examples...

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...

This lesson introduces the purpose and types of characters in fiction writing. W.9-10.3b Narrative techn

[Free Registration/Login Required] This TES resource will help students as they read Romeo and Juliet. This resource includes the names of the characters and their images of these characters, as depicted in the 1996 movie version.

Printable PDF file of a Probable Passage Matrix graphic organizer. It asks students to identify the characters, setting, problem, solution, and ending of a story, and it is provided by a standardized test preparation site intended for...

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

An image of "Dublures of Characters", created by James Gillray in 1798 (Etching and engraving, 235 x 327 mm).

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 collection of over four hundred satirical prints (made in Britain and continental Europe) of Napoleon. Related historical essays on the prints themselves and on the cast of characters depicted in them round out the site. Also includes...

This slideshow lesson features the genre of historical fiction. It provides background information, common elements, literary examples, and practice. The practice consists of viewing pictures of Stonehenge and the Pyramids and thinking...