Lesson Plan Idea 2 for Blogs in the Classroom.

Lesson Title: Story Extension Blog

Standards:

» LACC.910.RL.1.1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.     Cognitive Complexity: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts    l    Date Adopted or Revised: 12/10     Belongs to: Key Ideas and Details      More Information »

» LACC.910.RL.1.2: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.     Cognitive Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning    l    Date Adopted or Revised: 12/10     Belongs to: Key Ideas and Details      More Information »

» LACC.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.     Cognitive Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning    l    Date Adopted or Revised: 12/10     Belongs to: Key Ideas and Details

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Lesson Instructions:

11.   This can be used with any literary work. Ask students to create a blog from the perspective of one of the story’s characters. They may decorate their blog to represent that character.

 After reading the first chapter of your selected work, students will create a blog post identifying the character that they have chosen and make predictions about the character’s personality, relationships, and strengths and weaknesses.

3.       After Students are finished reading each chapter they will post to their blog from their character’s perspective. Each post should act as a creative way to perform a character analysis. Students should consider the following questions: What happened in this chapter? What events might be particularly interesting to your character and why? How do you predict your character will react to these events in the next chapters? What is your character’s overall attitude towards   these events? 

3. The last post on the blog should be an anaylsis of character progression. Students should cite both the text and their blog posts.