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Comparing and Contrasting Book Characters

This lesson plan summarizes an activity where students will compare and contrast the characters Junior and Rowdy from the novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian. Students will be divided into small groups to discuss similarities and differences between the characters and create a Venn diagram poster. The teacher will assess student understanding through these group presentations. The goal is for students to practice comparing and contrasting techniques and prepare for a future essay assignment.

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Comparing and Contrasting Book Characters

This lesson plan summarizes an activity where students will compare and contrast the characters Junior and Rowdy from the novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian. Students will be divided into small groups to discuss similarities and differences between the characters and create a Venn diagram poster. The teacher will assess student understanding through these group presentations. The goal is for students to practice comparing and contrasting techniques and prepare for a future essay assignment.

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Comparing and Contrasting Book Characters


*Lesson plan based on a 50-minute class
Purpose/rationale:
Students will discuss, in small groups, specific similarities and differences between the
characters Junior and Rowdy in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, which they
have recently finished reading as a class. In their small groups students will create a Venn
diagram poster to present to the class. The purpose of this activity is to have students engage in a
literary text with their newly developed understanding of the comparison and contrast technique.
This small group activity will prepare students to build on a comparison contrast essay the class
will wright on the novel at the end of the unit.
Common Core Standards:
LAFS.910.RL.4.10: By the end of grade 9, read and comprehend literature, including stories,
dramas, and poems, in the grades 9-10 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as
needed in the high end of the range.
LAFS.910.RL.1.3: Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting
motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters and advance the plot
or develop the theme.
LAFS.910.W.3.9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis,
reflection, and research.
Objectives:
Students will be able to (SWBAT):
Compare and contrast characters Mr. and Mrs. Spirit from The Absolutely True Diary of a
Part-time Indian
Analyze characters Junior and Rowdy from The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time
Indian by determining their similarities and differences in character
Create, as poster as a group, of a Venn diagram comparing and contrasting characters
Junior and Rowdy from The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian
Materials:

Key to Mondays homework


Each students copy of Mondays homework
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian (copy for each student)
Poster board (6 pieces - one for each group of 5)
Markers
Computer and projector
Smart Board

Pencil and paper

Anticipatory set: (2 minutes)


Teacher will have desks arranged into groups of 5, and have names students organized into
groups projected on the board. Students will take seats according to temporary seating chart.
Teacher will take attendance. Teacher will ask students to take out homework from the following
night, and walk around to check for a completion grade.
Teaching strategy/Procedure/Activity:
Time
8 minutes

2 minutes

10 minutes

5 minutes

18 minutes

Student is doing
Listening to teacher go over
last nights homework,
participating in discussion
as prompted

Teacher is doing
Going over last nights
homework comparing and
contrasting Mr. and Mrs.
Spirit in The Absolutely
True Diary of a Part-time
Indian
Listening to teacher
Giving instructions on the
small group activity:
Comparing and
contrasting Rowdy
and Junior from The
Absolutely True
Diary of a Part-time
Indian
Brainstorming in small
Walking around answering
groups about the similarities questions as needed, and
and differences between the prompting students in the
two characters
right direction
Creating a poster of a Venn Walking around answering
Diagram comparing the two questions as needed, and
characters
prompting students in the
right direction
Presenting in small groups, Listening to small group
to the class their Venn
presentations, formatively
Diagram.
assessing students for their
understanding of comparing
and contrasting

Summary/closure: (5 minutes)
Ask students if they have any questions, and clarify any confusion about comparing and
contrasting.

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Assessment:
Formative assessment: Group posters
Informative assessment: Formatively assess students understanding of comparing and
contrasting through group presentations of Venn diagrams.
Homework:

N/A

Accommodations/adaptations:

Roberto: Provided access to a Spanish/English dictionary, teacher assistance if needed


Jenny: Preferential seating, teacher cues, may stand in the back for a few minutes and
return to her seat
Mark: Preferential seating

Attachments/Appendices:

N/A

Plan B:
If the projector or computer does not work the teacher will verbally direct students into their
groups. If the students do not behave and work diligently in their small groups, then they will be
given individual Venn diagram worksheets to complete with quotations from their books.

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