Roman Fever and Other Stories Lesson Plan

Character Analysis + Interviews

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

Students will use textual evidence to create a character analysis

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.3

Structure:

Divide the class into six groups, assigning each group one of the short stories that have been read from the book thus far ("Roman Fever," "Xingu," "The Other Two," "Souls Belated," "The Angel at the Grave," "After Holbein"). The groups will complete a character analysis for all the main characters in their story. As some stories have more characters than others, you may choose to limit the groups to analyzing just two or three characters, or...