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What's So Different? Comparing Characters
Using your acting skills and a great book by Chris Van Allsburg, you will lead your students on an adventure to compare characters and events throughout a book.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to compare and contrast characters based on their character traits.
The adjustment to the whole group lesson is a modification to differentiate for children who are English learners.
Introduction
(10 minutes)
- Prior to the start of the lesson, start acting differently than how you normally act. For example, start acting very depressed or very rigid to your students. They will most likely ask what is wrong. Brush them off so that they will compare your current actions to your normal behavior.
- Still in character, write compare and contrast on the board. Have students think about their meanings and discuss them with their table groups or partners.
- Explain that compare means to find similarities, while contrast means to find differences.
Beginning
- Provide visuals or real-life objects to demonstrate the meaning of compare and contrast.
Intermediate
- Provide sentence stems for the discussion:
- "When you compare you________."
- "For example,________."