The Help Lesson Plan

Character Exploration

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

Students will analyze a character in "The Help" and discuss the character in a group.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.1, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.3

Structure:

As a class, identify the primary characters in The Help. Briefly describe the characters, citing text to support the description. You might say Skeeter is outspoken, based on her telling Hilly in Chapter 1 maybe they should build a separate bathroom for her. Separate students into groups and assign each group a character. Within their groups, students will analyze what we know about that character: their personality,...