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Lesson
3: Character Education
(Character Traits)
Understanding
of characterization will be enhanced as students read
a novel and explore how personality influences decisions
made by storybook characters.
Objective:
Students will identify positive and negative traits,
evaluate how traits define the character's unique
personality, and explain their effect on the character's
actions in the story.
Materials:
Forbidden Friendships - This fictional story,
based on real life events, takes place in 1870's North
Adams, Massachusetts. It is about a young girl, Molly,
who befriends a Chinese immigrant working in Molly's
father's shoe factory.
Procedure:
1. Using
Forbidden Friendship Characterization Notes guide
students to identify traits of characters in the story.
The Characterization Notes should not be distributed
to students. This sheet is a teacher's guide only.
2. Students should continue to develop Character Traits
sheet from Lesson 2.
Evaluation:
Create a copy of Forbidden
Friendship Characterization Notes deleting the
information in the Example column. Students should
complete this column independently and demonstrate
application of characterization skill by noting examples.
EXTENSION ACTIVITIES: Forbidden
Friendship Teachers Guide
- For additional activities to accompany "Forbidden
Friendship"
Immigration
Newtown, Wales - North Adams, Massachusetts -
For North Adams and immigration activities/information
Standards:
| Framework:
Comprehensive Health |
Identity
5.3 Define character traits such as honesty, trustworthiness,
self-discipline, respectfulness, and kindness
and describe their contribution to identity, self-concept,
decision-making, and interpersonal relationships.
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| Strand:
Social and Emotional Health |
| Grade
Span: PK-5 |
| Standard:
Mental Health |
| Framework:
English Language Arts |
12.3
Identify and analyze the elements of setting,
characterization, and plot (including conflict).
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| Strand:
Reading and Literature |
| Grade
Span: 5-6 |
Standard:
Fiction
Students will identify, analyze, and apply knowledge
of the structure and elements of fiction and provide
evidence from the text to support their understanding. |
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