Last of the Mohicans Lesson Plan

Character Journaling

Kind of Activity:

Individual Writing

Objective:

Students will examine characters more closely with creative writing

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.3, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.3

Structure:

In this extended activity, students will pick a character from the book and write a series of journal entries as that character. First, have students choose a character they identify with. Instruct the students to list out the actions their character has taken so far in the story. For every action, students should write down a motivation and any emotions that may be tied to that motivation. Students should now extrapolate from this list and write a...