Characters Lessons

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.

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

Imagine being a character in a story. Are you worried that your story’s narrator may inaccurately describe you? What if they reveal something you wanted to be kept secret? Do narrators have too much power!?

When students are told that they’re “smart”, what does this word actually mean to them? (Psst. It isn’t what we intended.)

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

Anyone can say a character changed. Your students will prove it: four details from the beginning, four from the end, and the two traits those details point to.

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

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

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.