Essential Question: How does identifying character traits of a character help the reader make connections to, and inferences about, the character?

 

PA & PACC StandardsPA Assessment anchor: R5.B.1.1 Know that both fiction and literary nonfiction contain the following common components:Character, setting, plot, and theme.

Common CoreCCR.L.10 Range of Reading and Complexity of Text: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 4–5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.CCR.L2 Key Ideas and Details: Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.CCR.L.3 Key Ideas and Details: Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact).CCR.L.6 Craft and Structure: Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described. 

Acquisition Lesson• Activating Strategy: Give

students a list of character traits. Have them work in pairs to identify ones that they do not “know” as a pair (meaning that neither of them can explain/give an example of that trait). Discuss as a large group any that are unclear, and need clarification. Use student experts to help explain the traits.

Acquisition Lesson

• Activating Strategy: Give students a list of character traits. Have them work in pairs to identify ones that they do not “know” as a pair (meaning that neither of them can explain/give an example of that trait). Discuss as a large group any that are unclear, and need clarification. Use student experts to help explain the traits.

• Key vocabulary to preview:Trait, emotion, similar, different, identify

Teaching Strategies:Concept map graphic organizer for character trait anlalysis. Numbered/A-B pair students

Instruction:1.) Present ppt. on character traits: review what the term “trait”

means and clarify the difference between trait and emotion.2.) Slide 4 is a review of some traits, and the difference between

positive and negative traits.3.) When you get to the list of traits (notebook p. 5), have the pairs

discuss which traits in the list are positive traits.4.)At the interactive board, students should underline in black ink

those traits in the list that are “positive” (good) traits for a person to have. They should underling in red “negative” traits that are not good traits for a person to have.

5.) Share as a whole group/discussAP #1: What is the difference between positive and negative character

traits?

Students should read a few pages in their book, and then identify some positive character traits of the main character. They need to provide evidence to support each trait (thoughts, actions, or dialogue) using the graphic organizer provided to them-post this on interactive board as well.

6.) Students should then complete the character trait organizer for themselves using at least 1 trait that relates to their character trait analysis.

7.) Group students into groups of 4 to discuss how they are connecting to the traits of the main character.

AP #2: Compare character traits of yourself with character traits of a main character in a book.

8.) Students write a paragraph explaining how they are similar to the character in the book in regards to their character traits.

• Assignment: Complete a “concept “ graphic organizer for character traits of a main character in a story (for this story: Matt in Sign of the Beaver). The students choose one of the positive character traits they placed in the graphic organizer that they feel they share with the character. They will write a paragraph comparing themselves to the character through this trait. They will provide evidence from the book, and their own personal experiences.

Summarizing Strategy: Exit Ticket

3- Students list 3 personal positive traits.2- Students list 2 positive traits of the main

character. 1-Students list 1 trait that the main character

has that the student would like to have, and explain why they wish they had this trait...

Voice over of lesson at interactive whiteboard (SMARTboard/Promethean Board)