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Mind Map on Return to Sender: Character Development, created by kmeinken36 on 11/13/2013.
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Return to Sender: Character
Development
1 Story Structure
1.1 Create a set of story
boards, one for each
chapter, with a good
title for each chapter,
picture and summary
1.2 Students create Trading cards using an online resource to track charter traits
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/planning-story-characters-using-932.html
1.3 Students create skits using paper bags,
pertaining to important events in a story.
Other students have to discover what
scene and characters the students are
using.
2 Vocabulary
2.1 Create a word wall with
words used to describe
characters, at the
begining and the end of
the story
2.2 Have students find
sentences that are a
turning point for a
specific character.
3 Reading Logs
3.1 Students write double entry
journals having quotes in one
column and how those quotes
have changed the character
3.2 Students write response
such as Character
introspections and character
assessment
3.3 Have students respond to
question on a discussion
board, and respond to each
other
4 Research
4.1 Have students
research the issue
of Immigration
4.2 Research about the
author: Why did they
write this book
5 Writing
5.1 have students respond
to one of Maria's letters
5.2 What if Tyler wrote a letter
who would he write it to.
Have the students pretend
to be Tyler and write a
letter.
5.3 Take a scene from the book where Tyler made a
dissicion to ignore Maria and her family and have
the student write a narrative if he had made a
different desscision.
6 Grand conversation
6.1 Have students share their
thoughts on the chapter
6.2 Have students make
predictions about what will
happen next, and give
evidence as to why they
think it will happen
6.3 Have students share
quotes from the chapter
which represent a
change in Tyler of Maria