Common Core Standards
Grade 7
Reading RL.7.6
Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text.
People think in many different ways, and children don't begin to realize this until early adolescence. This Common Core Standard exists to guide students on that path to realization, while doing it in an academic setting. For example, it may be weird for students to read about Brian's thoughts on food after the events of Hatchet, and they might be able to realize that the reason why he views food differently than normal people is because of his experiences during the novel.
Example 1
Here's an activity to use when students are reading, well, anything.
Have students use a graphic organizer to record their ideas and locate support to analyze characters in each of the readings, both fiction and nonfiction. They can also complete additional activities to look at character personas and traits.
Aligned Resources
- Teaching Ella Enchanted: To Obey, or Not to Obey: That is the Question
- Teaching The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963: Let's Do the Time Warp
- Teaching When You Reach Me: The Write Stuff
- Teaching Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Integration In Our Nation
- Teaching Because of Winn-Dixie: Because of Winn-Dixie: Yes, That's Actually the Title of This Assignment
- Teaching Because of Winn-Dixie: Channeling Winn-Dixie
- Teaching The Westing Game: A Puzzle Mystery: Wanted: Dead or Wax Look-Alike!
- Teaching Ella Enchanted: TWIST-ed Storytelling
- Teaching Moon Over Manifest: Operation "I Spy"
- Teaching Number the Stars: Good to See You Again…
- Teaching Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: T.J.'s Downward Spiral
- Teaching The View from Saturday: Getting To Know a Turtle (Almost)
- Teaching The Westing Game: A Puzzle Mystery: Share the Wealth: Pair with an Heir
- Teaching Ella Enchanted: Orphan vs. Orphan
- ELA Online: Digital Literacy Connections to English Language Arts: Facebook or Twitter Plot Summary
- Teaching Hatchet: What's The Big Deal in Hatchet?: Determining the Climax
- Teaching Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: The Rules of Flag Flying (You Read That Right)
- Teaching The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963: The Byron Files
- Teaching The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963: Parent and Child Disunion
- Teaching A Wrinkle in Time: The Quotable Mrs. Who
- Teaching Hatchet: All Alone and Nowhere to Go
- Teaching The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A Different Perspective
- Teaching The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963: Getting' Graphic with The Wool Pooh
- Teaching When You Reach Me: The Write Stuff, Part II