Free English / Language Arts Lesson Plan

This is an English/Language Arts lesson plan to help students identify character traits in novels and short stories. This Language Arts lesson plan may be adapted to any ability level and may also be used in an ESL classroom. This Language Arts lesson plan comes complete with Content and Language objectives as well as cognitive and metacognitive strategies used and possible ESL adaptations. it also comes with the assignment for you to copy and hand out to the class.

Character Poster

I. Grade/content: 7-12/English

II. Subject: English

III. Content Objectives:

a. Students will work be able to discuss a character and their attributes on a poster to be presented to the class.

b. Students will identify the character's significance to the book and represent it in a short written response.

IV. Language Objectives:

a. Students will use words and pictures to represent a character from a book they are reading.

b. Students will work cooperatively with a partner to create a poster to present to the class about their character.

c. Students will work individually to create a short response about their character and their significance to the book.

V. Instructional Features:

a. Activities and procedures:

i. Teacher puts up a section of a short story or novel with the description of a character and reads it out loud to the class. Teacher provides a written version in English or native language for Ell's if needed.

ii. Teacher places name of character on a chart on the board and asks students to name characteristics of the character listed with the categories of appearance, personality, wants/desires/ambitions, relationships with other characters, significance to the novel/book.