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    Character interviews are a student-focused strategy where students role-play as characters from a literary text and interview each other to demonstrate in-depth character analysis, improve oral and written language skills, and encourage social-emotional learning. By writing interview questions for characters from an assigned text and taking turns role-playing as interviewers and characters, students can gain a deeper understanding of textual evidence while collaborating with partners in either an English or history classroom or adapted for online use.

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    Character interviews are a student-focused strategy where students role-play as characters from a literary text and interview each other to demonstrate in-depth character analysis, improve oral and written language skills, and encourage social-emotional learning. By writing interview questions for characters from an assigned text and taking turns role-playing as interviewers and characters, students can gain a deeper understanding of textual evidence while collaborating with partners in either an English or history classroom or adapted for online use.

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    Character

    Interviews A student-focused strategy

    Developed by Viola Spolin (1986, 1999), character


    interviews are designed to allow students to imagine
    themselves as characters in a literary text. This
    activity has students role-play as characters from
    the text and interviewers (Maxwell et al., 94).

    Benefits
    role-play
    partner collaboration
    social-emotional learning
    in-depth character analysis
    textual evidence
    written and oral language skills

    This method is best designed to serve


    students in a general education English or
    history classroom. This activity could be
    adapted for students with specific learning
    needs or an online setting.

    In an English classroom...
    Using the assigned text, in partners, students will
    write interview questions for characters in the text.
    Taking turns, students will ask each other the
    questions while role-playing as an interviewer and
    chosen characters from the text.
    Example: The Outsiders

    Technology
    e-mail
    movie/video
    podcast/audio recording

    Sources
    Maxwell, R. J., Meiser, M. J., & McKnight, K. S. (2011). Teaching English in Middle and Secondary Schools. Pearson.

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