Lesson Plan
Identifying Character Traits
What's your "it"? This lesson incorporates Tony Dungy's You Can Do It! into some hands-on activities that help students learn about different character traits.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to identify character traits and find portions of textual evidence to support them.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Introduce the class to the concept of a character trait. Explain that a character trait describes the behavior or attitude of a person, and that one could be used to describe anyone in the classroom.
- Give an example: If someone has a character trait of being persevering,he doesn't give up when things get hard.
- Provide a non-example to help students understand what character traits are not: Black hair is not a character trait, since it only describes physical appearance. Character traits describe behavior and attitude.
- Beginning: Provide a visual from a recent story to help describe the physical traits and character traits of the character.
- Allow them to restate the difference between physical traits and character traits in their home language (L1) or new language (L2).
- Intermediate: Provide definitions for behavior, motivations, and attitude.
- Allow ELs to repeat the definitions in their new or home language.
- Ask if they can come up with any non examples or examples of character traits from a recent read aloud.