This lesson will teach how characters evolve across a story, and that often times the important changes are subtle. This lesson uses accountable-talk during a read aloud of One Green Apple by Eve Bunting to demonstrate how, as readers, students can use the traits of their character as a lens through which to interpret deeper, more significant changes stirring within. They will ultimately use those observations about their characters to author an epilogue for their books. The epilogue will allow students to demonstrate what they have learned about their main character, and it will allow the teacher to assess how well the students understand their characters and the changes their characters experienced across the text.

For students to show understanding of character development and theme after reading The Crucible, have them create a one-pager.  This has students pulling text, applying it using Bloom's Taxonomy, and creating a visual.

In this lesson, students will use a graphic organizer to trace the development of a character throughout a text. They will examine things the character says, things others say about the character, and the character's action. Finally, students will use these notes to create a toy based on this character. They will add information on the box to show what would be included in the box and to add information about the character. In addition, if students have been taught about propaganda, they should use those techniques to create advertising materials for their toy. The toy and advertising information should include many of the details students gathered from the text that help to develop the character. 

In this lesson, students are introduced to Peter Keating, a main antagonist of Howard Roark in The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Students receive background information from a powerpoint presentation before reading and paying attention to the relationships Keating develops in the novel.

A reading role graphic organizer to help students infer character traits and character development while citing evidence.