Julie Bernhard
5th grade lesson plan
Cooperating Teacher: Ms. Weglarz
Student Teaching
Character Trait Lesson Plan
- Educational Objectives
SWBAT analyze and identify character traits.
NJCCCS:
RL.5.2.Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.
RI.5.8.Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point(s).
W.5.3.Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective
technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
- Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations.
- Use a variety of transitional words, phrases, and clauses to manage the sequence of events.
- Use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events precisely.
- Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.
- Instructional Materials & Resources
- What will you need to prepare your lesson?
- What will you need to use during the lesson?
- Walk Two Moons novel
- Identifying Character Traits worksheet
- Adjectives and Character Traits worksheet
- Sample Character Traits worksheet
- Character Trait identification sheet
- Song and Dance Man book
- SmartBoard
- Vocabulary:
- Character trait: descriptive adjectives that tell the reader specific qualities of the character
- Procedures
- Anticipatory Set
- Students will be asked to close their eyes and listen carefully to
the description of the character, Mrs. Winterbottom, taken
from the novel Walk Two Moons. - We will then discuss what they pictured from the reading
- After discussing what they “saw” during the reading, I will introduce the term “character trait"
- Body of the Lesson
- I will distribute the character traits worksheet
- After handing out a worksheet to each student, we will read it as a class
- Once discussing the worksheet, I will read Song and Dance Man
- While I read the book out loud, I will have the students fill out the character traits identification worksheet
- After completing the book I will allot 5 minutes for each group to discuss the character traits they came up with and then we will reconvene as a class to discuss some traits we came up with.
- Closure & Extension
- We will wrap the lesson up with a character trait game on the smartboard
- I will then review with the students about how authors try to create a mental picture of
their characters in order to understand them better. Have them explain some
ways an author can do this (by describing how a character looks, speaks, thinks
and acts.)
- Assessment/Evaluation
- I will be assessing the students based on (observations, quiz, presentation, etc.)?
- Did they meet/exceed the educational objectives? How will you evaluate how well each students learned (rubric, observation checksheets, rating scales, numeric/letter grades)?