Chronicle of a Death Foretold Lesson Plan

Character Analysis

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

Students will use textual evidence to create a character analysis and explain how their character helps to convey one of the themes from the novel.

Structure:

Have the students identify all the main characters and make a list together on the board. Individually assign the students a character to analyze. The students should consider the characters' lives, physical descriptions, socioeconomic class, beliefs, positive/negative qualities, their relationships with other major characters, and their response to the death foretold. For each category, students will write a summary of their overall sense of the...