Become a Character: Adjectives, Character Traits, and Perspective

Big Ideas

Comprehension requires and enhances critical thinking and is constructed through the intentional interaction between reader and text
Concepts

Essential content of text, including literary elements and devices, inform meaning

Essential content, literary elements and devices inform meaning

Textual structure, features and organization inform meaning
Competencies

Analyze and evaluate author’s/authors’ use of literary elements within and among genres

Analyze and evaluate author’s/authors’ use of conflict, theme and /or point of view within and among texts

Evaluate the characteristics of various genre (e.g. fiction and nonfiction forms of narrative, poetry, drama and essay) to determine how the form relates to purpose.

Identify and evaluate essential content between and among various text types

Interpret and analyze the effect of literary devices within and among texts (e.g. personification, simile, alliteration, metaphor, symbolism, imagery, hyperbole, foreshadowing, flashback, allusions, satire, and irony)

Use and cite evidence from texts to make assertions, inferences, generalizations, and to draw conclusions

Description

Students use an online chart to match the character traits of a character in a book they are reading with specific actions the character takes. Students then work in pairs to "become" one of the major characters in a book and describe themselves and other characters, using Internet reference tools to compile lists of accurate, powerful adjectives supported with details from the reading. Students read each other's lists of adjectives and try to identify who is being described.

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Become a Character: Adjectives, Character Traits, and Perspective

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Become a Character: Adjectives, Character Traits, and Perspective