Description
Have your students analyze and study the short story “Thank You Ma’am” written by Harlem Renaissance legend Langston Hughes. This lesson has a focus on methods of characterization. This includes a PDF copy of the lesson as well as a Word Document so teachers can edit the lesson.
This Lesson Includes:
- Before reading anticipation activity
- Academic Vocabulary graphic organizer
- Reading Comprehension Questions
- Definitions on characterization, direct characterization, indirect characterization, and the difference between static and dynamic characters.
- A three part characterization analysis of the short story “Thank you Ma’am” which requires students to use textual evidence and logical inferencing skills to analyze the characters from the story.
- After reading questions for the text “Thank you Ma’am” which focus on point of view, theme, and opinion questions based on students’ reactions to the literature.
- Answer Keys
Standards Based Focus:
- Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
- Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
- Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.
- Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
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