Grade 8 ELA Touching Spirit Bear: Lesson 4 (week 3)

Grade 8 ELA Unit: Novel Study

Topic: Character profile September week 3 2017 Length of Lesson: 50 min

Specific Learning
Outcomes GLO 2 : Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to
comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, print and other media
texts.
SL0 2.2: Respond to Texts
Experience various texts
Write and represent from others point of view
Identify and describe characters' attributes and motivations, using evidence
from the text

Learning Students will:

Objectives Create a character profile using textual evidence
Represent different perspectives

Materials - Novel
- Task handout

Procedure Assessment Methods

Introduction Introduce students to the task handout and Formative: check for
5 mins rubric give a couple examples of what the understanding have them
students could do repeat their goals back to me

Body of Lesson Give students the period to finish it if it is not

(40 minutes) done it will be due Monday Summative: This character
profile will be used for a
summative mark
Note: Allow Jack, Jack and
Kaden to do the project minus
the textual evidence only
make them find textual
evidence for one
Closure Have a class discussion on why using textual
(10 min.) evidence is important
 Character Instagram page

But first, lemme take a selfie

Task description:

Create an Instagram page for one of the characters. Your Instagram

page must include:
1. A bio for your character
2. 3 pictures that may be on your characters Instagram page
3. A caption underneath the picture and textual evidence to support that
caption/ picture
4. A couple #hashtags under the picture in the caption area that relates
to your character and the book

What are your goals?

2.2 Respond to Texts
1. Write and represent narratives from other points of view
2. Identify and describe characters' attributes and motivations, using
evidence from the text