Character Development 

Objective: ​Students will be able to identify character traits by reviewing how other 
creators develop their characters in order to apply these techniques to create their 
own characters.  

Plan: 
Opening   After journaling (10 minutes) and  10 minutes 
reviewing the​ ​characterization  +10 minutes of 
presentation​, students will go back and  journaling  
write three things that make their 
character/person unique.  
Then they will go back into their story 
and highlight a few places where these 
details could be added.  

Class  We will read an excerpt from “I Am Not  10 minutes  

Your Perfect Mexican Daughter” pg 2 & 
6-7 

Group Work  Students will be assigned a question to  20 minutes 

their groups: 
● How did the author help the reader 
get to know the character? 
● How did your picture or 
understanding of the character 
change from the first sentence to the 
last? 
● What techniques did the writer use to 
develop this character? 
● How could you use some of these 
same techniques in your own 
writing? 

Class Closing  We will create posters for each of these  20 minutes  

questions for students to look back to 
during their writing process