Character Trait Analysis Charts
Grade Seven - Language Arts
Overview:
This activity will help students identify and explain characters’ traits and motivations, by considering their speech, thoughts, and actions.
Materials:
- Post-it® Flex Write Surface
- Post-it® Super Sticky Mini Easel Pad
- Post-it® Flags
- Post-it® Super Sticky Notes,
- Writing Utensil
Steps:
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- On a Post-it® Flex Write Surface or whiteboard write down three category headers: speech, thoughts, actions.
- Distribute one Post-it® Super Sticky Mini Easel Pad, three Post-it® Flags and three Post-it® Super Sticky Notes to each student in the class.
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- Each student chooses whether they will search for a character’s speech, thoughts, or actions.
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- Students will search a text or book to find passages where a character demonstrates speech, thoughts, or actions and use the Post-it® Flags to mark each page or passage.
- Students then decipher which character trait the passage displays and write it on the Post-it® Super Sticky Notes.
- The Post-it® Super Sticky Notes with the character trait is stuck to the Post-it® Super Sticky Mini Easel Pad page and the quote from the text along with an in-depth explanation is written for why that character trait was chosen.
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- Students share their work by sticking their Post-it® Super Sticky Mini Easel Pad to the Post-it® Flex Write Surface or whiteboard under the corresponding category.
