This is a six day thematic unit for third graders on characters. The entire unit contains four instructional lesson plans and a final assessment plan designed to span over two days. Students begin by learning what characters are and how they can be described. They then explore the topic of culture and how it influences a character’s development. Students then learn what makes up a good character and create their own characters to write about. In the final assessment, students create a mock Facebook profile for a character of their choice, using everything they have learned about characters to create descriptions based on the book that can be shared with the class in a final presentation.
Standards Addressed:
Language Arts
Strand: Reading Literature
Topic: Key Ideas and Details
Content Statement 3.3: Describe characters in a story (their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of the events. Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of the text.
Social Studies
Theme: Communities: Past and Present, Near and Far
Strand: Geography
Topic: Human Systems
Content Statement 3.8: Communities may include diverse cultural groups.
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Kayla Gilliland 