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Activity Overview


The Witch of Blackbird Pond is a largely character-driven novel. Kit’s interactions with the various people she meets in Wethersfield drive her story and personal growth. As they read the novel, students should develop a strong understanding of the various characters and their personalities through both direct and indirect characterization. To help students master direct and indirect characterization, have them create a storyboard identifying important character traits and the way these are conveyed in the novel. Students can look for indirect characterization based on character actions, their comments, or others’ comments about them. Students looking for direct characterization will search for specific lines in which the narrator explicitly states particular character qualities. For each character trait, have students depict an appropriate scene, annotated below with the student’s observations or a direct quotation from the text.


Hannah Tupper Characterization Example


HANNAH TUPPER


WISE

DIRECT CHARACTERIZATION: "Her faded eyes studied the girl beside her, and now there was nothing childlike in that wise, friendly gaze" (96).


KIND

INDIRECT CHARACTERIZATION: Hannah is gentle and comforting. She reaches out to those in need like Kit, Prudence, and the young Nat. She lets them play with her kittens and feeds them generously out of her small store of food.


INDEPENDENT

INDIRECT CHARACTERIZATION: Hannah survives all alone in a small hut in the field. She is not welcome in the nearby Puritan settlement, but seems to content to exist with her cats and memories of her husband Thomas.




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Template and Class Instructions

(These instructions are completely customizable. After clicking "Copy Activity", update the instructions on the Edit Tab of the assignment.)



Student Instructions

  1. Click "Start Assignment".
  2. Choose a character and write their name in the row header on the left.
  3. Write three traits that character possess in the column headers.
  4. Describe each and state whether they are direct or indirect characterizations.
  5. Create illustrations using appropriate scenes, characters, and items.
  6. Save and Exit

Lesson Plan Reference

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Activity Overview


The Witch of Blackbird Pond is a largely character-driven novel. Kit’s interactions with the various people she meets in Wethersfield drive her story and personal growth. As they read the novel, students should develop a strong understanding of the various characters and their personalities through both direct and indirect characterization. To help students master direct and indirect characterization, have them create a storyboard identifying important character traits and the way these are conveyed in the novel. Students can look for indirect characterization based on character actions, their comments, or others’ comments about them. Students looking for direct characterization will search for specific lines in which the narrator explicitly states particular character qualities. For each character trait, have students depict an appropriate scene, annotated below with the student’s observations or a direct quotation from the text.


Hannah Tupper Characterization Example


HANNAH TUPPER


WISE

DIRECT CHARACTERIZATION: "Her faded eyes studied the girl beside her, and now there was nothing childlike in that wise, friendly gaze" (96).


KIND

INDIRECT CHARACTERIZATION: Hannah is gentle and comforting. She reaches out to those in need like Kit, Prudence, and the young Nat. She lets them play with her kittens and feeds them generously out of her small store of food.


INDEPENDENT

INDIRECT CHARACTERIZATION: Hannah survives all alone in a small hut in the field. She is not welcome in the nearby Puritan settlement, but seems to content to exist with her cats and memories of her husband Thomas.




Template and Class Instructions

(These instructions are completely customizable. After clicking "Copy Activity", update the instructions on the Edit Tab of the assignment.)



Student Instructions

  1. Click "Start Assignment".
  2. Choose a character and write their name in the row header on the left.
  3. Write three traits that character possess in the column headers.
  4. Describe each and state whether they are direct or indirect characterizations.
  5. Create illustrations using appropriate scenes, characters, and items.
  6. Save and Exit

Lesson Plan Reference

Switch to: Common CoreArizonaCaliforniaColoradoFloridaGeorgiaIowaKansasMarylandMassachusettsNebraskaNew JerseyNew YorkNorth CarolinaOhioOklahomaPennsylvaniaTexasUtah




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