Character Analysis

Can someone do the right thing, but for the wrong reason?

Your young students will compare how two characters have changed in a story.

How do characters from novels line up with Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences?

What is the Brick Pig’s philosophy? How would he apply it to the characters in Harry Potter?

Are students’ characters a bit flat? Archetypes give them a strong foundation on which to build their own characters as well as a tool to analyze existing stories.

Create a pixelated icon that represents the essence of a character!

We tell students to ‘show, not tell’ — but that advice is useless until they experience the difference. This lesson makes it click.

What if one character dressed up as another for Halloween? Would the Cat in the Hat pick Captain Jack Sparrow, because they’re both chaotic yet good-natured people? Would Elsa dress up as The Ice King since they are both lonely?

Strength and weakness are often two sides of the same coin. Students will explore how a character’s flaw can be a benefit.

Your students will use Depth and Complexity to note how a character’s main trait changes across a story.

Put a grumpy character next to a joyful one and they make each other stand out even more. Opposites are powerful!

Aristotle noted that positive traits and negative traits are often the same thing, but just in different amounts. The right amount is a virtue, but too much or too little and it’s a vice.

What playlist of songs best goes with a character’s change over time?

Four Charlotte’s Web characters. One doesn’t belong. But which one? That depends on your argument.

Your 1st and 2nd graders will analyze how a character responded to a challenge.

What item’s in a character’s bedroom would reflect their deepest desires? And what if they toured a similar character’s room?