Stories and Retelling
7th Grade Reading · 20 lessons
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Lessons
- 1How Setting Shapes the PlotAnalyze how a story's time and place create possibilities and limits for what happens.
- 2Character Motivation: Wants and ReasonsExplain what characters want and why, and how their motives drive their choices.
- 3Direct and Indirect CharacterizationIdentify how authors reveal character by telling and by showing.
- 4Dynamic and Static CharactersTrack how a character changes, or stays the same, across a story.
- 5Internal and External ConflictIdentify the struggles that drive a story, both inside and outside a character.
- 6How Dialogue Reveals Character and Moves the PlotAnalyze what a conversation tells you about characters and how it pushes events forward.
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