Character Trait Analyzers and Analysis of FEELINGS

SEL: Character Trait Analysis can develop SEL!

• What character traits are important to YOU?

• What character traits are most important to our classroom community?

• Write to describe important trait of a person. 

• Analyze speech by President Obama to infer important traits.

• Actions can show traits.

• Identify and Illustrate our Classroom Traits

FICTION: Analyze Feelings and Traits of Fictional Characters

Analyze character development lesson plan

• Compare feelings to traits
• Teacher chart shows the difference between traits and feelings.

• Infer feelings of characters based on what they say.

• Analyze character traits start with synonyms and antonyms then give examples ENGLISH and SPANISH versions

• Compare the FEELINGS of a character and a narrator

• Analyze character in a myth one page text with questions

• Analyze traits of characters in realistic fiction about the election of President Obama

• Infer TWO traits of one character 

• I Can Infer Character Traits and Support with Evidence
• Little Pink Riding Hood one page reading and INFERENCE DEVELOPER
• Write a paragraph to explain a character's trait

FICTION: Analyze Characters in relationship to the WHOLE story

Character trait lesson plan

• Analyze response to events by a character
• Analyze a character's development
• Analyze changes in feelings of a character during a story
• Relate character's choices to theme.  How do the choices and changes of a character help you understand the theme?

NONFICTION: Analyze the traits of individuals in history

General Analyzer for Any History or Biography or News Report

One-page texts with questions

• Analyze history--Abe Lincoln
• Analyze history--Valley Forge
• Analyze a Contemporary Cultural Leader