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[|Lesson Plan: Using Technology to Teach Characterization with Stargirl]
Lesson Plan: Using Technology to Teach Characterization with//Stargirl// PLANNING

Date: March 1, 2010 Class and Grade Level: 7th Grade Objective(s): The students should be able to discuss the characterization of the main characters in Jerry Spinelli’s Stargirl State (or District) Core Curriculum Standard(s): Standard 1. Objective 3 b. Describe a character’s traits as revealed by the narrator (thoughts, words, speech patterns, actions) Concept(s) to Be Taught: characterization Materials Needed: computers, Stargirl novel Strategies to Be Used: reading, writing, interviewing, podcasting

PERFORMING

Announcements: Continuation from Previous Lesson: After the students have read the novel Lesson Presentation:

A) Getting Started: Organize the students into groups of about 5. Give them the list of characters below. They must each pick one role. The starred (*) roles must be chosen before the other parts. Tell the students they must create a 5-7 minute podcast of an interview. The interviewer will interview all the characters as if they had a reunion twenty years late. The interviewer is primarily responsible for preparing questions and all the other character parts must study their character and prepare answers to the interviewers questions as their character would twenty years later.

Kevin Quinlan Hillari Dori Dilson Jerry Spinelli
 * Interviewer
 * Leo Borlock
 * StargirlArchie Brubake

B) Directing the Learning: Have the students fill out character charts describing the personality of their character. Have the interviewer pass out his or her questions to the rest of the group. After each students has prepared answers, they will share them as a group to make sure their answers are accurate. After a couple of rehearsals, students will create their podcast.

C) Bringing the Lesson to a Conclusion: The students will then listen to each others’ podcasts (there should only be 4-6 groups, depending on the size of the class) and have a class discussion about the issues that were discussed in each of the podcasts.


 * Here is the link to the Podcast I made. I felt like it would be most meaningful to create a Podcast that had the instructions for my students.

[|http://audioboo.fm/boos/101552-stargirl-instructions]