Character Traits for Middle School

Character traits and character analysis can be fun to teach in middle school with this low prep easy to use unit!

This unit will help you engage your students as they examine character traits and perform character analysis using examples from interesting YA novels.

Lesson Presentations Focus

• How Authors Reveal Characters
• Identifying Character Traits (Using Evidence to Support Inferences)
• Character Types
• Character Changes
• Included in the Resource

**What’s inside this 110 page/slide resource: **

• Teacher pacing guide and explanation
• Learning targets
• Links to 4 editable Google SLIDES lesson presentations
• 15 Student activity sheets (with links to digital versions)
• A word list of over 100 character traits
• Character Archetype Information Page (used for enrichment)
• Assessments
• Identifying and supporting character traits
• End of Unit multiple-choice assessment in print and self-correcting Google form version.
• Answer Keys

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