Lesson Plan
Keeping Good Character
This reading and writing lesson also helps students develop empathy. After paying attention to the main character's responses in Victoria and Elizabeth Kann's *Purplelicious*, students will relate her experiences to their own.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to describe a character's emotions and support their descriptions with textual evidence.
Introduction
(15 minutes)- Pass out the small journals.
- Write the following prompt on the board and ask students to respond to it: Share a time when you were teased or treated unkindly at school.
- Allow about 5-7 minutes for students to respond in their journals.
- Share any experiences you had as a child with the class, and then ask a few student volunteers to stand and share their written responses. Continue with a class discussion on feelings that were experienced.
- On the board, write a list of emotions that students experienced when teased or treated unkindly. Keep this list up for future reference.
- Show the class the over of Purplicious, and tell them you would like to share this story with them.
- Ask them to pay close attention to the main character's feelings, as well as what events caused them.
- Read aloud Purplicious.