CCSS ELA Standard: 2.RL.3

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

Teach your young students to identify the moral or the theme of a story.

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

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

When we try to solve a problem, sometimes we end up creating new problems. Which lead to new solutions. Which lead to new problems.

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

Here’s how effects be causes and causes can be effects!

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

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.

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

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

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

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