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Character Poems
Kind of Activity:
Creative Writing
Objective:
Students will be able to understand character development more clearly through poetry
Common Core Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.5
Structure:
Discuss character development. What is the purpose of Hurston writing the novel in a way that centers one particular character, Janie, and throughout focuses more on the changes in people and their relationships throughout? How does this reflect the time period and the values of the time period it was written in?
Review haiku and limericks with the students. A haiku is a three-line poem, with the first and third lines being five syllables and the second being...
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