Objectives!

These are kind of stacking objectives for English/Language Arts. The focus is on character traits. It is best done with a book with more ambiguous actors--no good and bad guys--and full of strong characters. Recommended texts include Curious George, Where the Wild Things Are, Despereaux, The Magician's Elephant, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (basically, any book by Kate DiCamillo), Flowers for Algernon, Hamlet, Othello, The Great Gatsby (who am I kidding, you can use the Great Gatsby for everything!), The Percy Jackson Books, Harry Potter, etc. (Basically, it can be taught in any grade).

Remembering

The student will be able to, given a narrative text, identify and list the main characters in the story with 95% accuracy.

Understanding

The student will be able to, given a list of main characters from the story, infer character traits, compare character's traits, and group characters by like traits, with 90% accuracy.

Applying

The student will be able to, given a character from the story, demonstrate an understanding of the character's traits by writing a journal for that character that parallels the events in the story, with 85% accuracy.

Analyzing

The student will be able to, given a character from the story, outline changes in character traits throughout the story and attribute in a report, changes to events in the story, with 90% accuracy.

Evaluating

The student will be able to, given characters in a story, hypothesize the character with the best traits and debate their decision with their classmates, focusing on quality of character traits, with 85% accuracy.

Creating

The student will be able to, given a well developed character, create a new story in which the characters traits play a key role, including a central character change, with 85% accuracy.