An Artist of the Floating World Lesson Plan

Character Analysis and Interview

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

Students will use textual evidence to create a character analysis

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.1

Structure:

Have the students identify all the main characters and make a list on the board. Break the class into small groups and assign each group one of the characters to analyze (Ono, Noriko, Setsuko, Ichiro, Matsuda, Moriyama, and perhaps Suichi, Shintaro, the Tortoise, Dr. Saito, Mrs. Kawakami, and Kuroda). *The assigned characters must be kept secret from the other groups.

Students will be analyzing their characters by creating a chart based on the following categories:...