Like a House on Fire Lesson Plan

Character Analysis and Interviews

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

Students will use textual evidence to create a character analysis

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1

Structure:

Divide the class into six groups, assigning each group one of the short stories that have been read from the book thus far ("Flexion," "Ashes," "Static," "Laminex and Mirrors," "Tender," "White Spirit," "Like a House on Fire," "Five-Dollar Family", and "Little Plastic Shipwreck"). The groups will complete a character analysis for two of the characters in their story.

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