Character Journey
Purpose:
In this unit, students learn to follow their main character’s journey across a book by following their character from place to place. This helps them keep track of the key events in the story. Students will learn in this unit that, when their character goes to a new place, something important is going to happen. Students will be using a timeline to keep track of scenes and the important events that happen there. Our ultimate goal is for students to internalize the reading strategies in this unit, so that they no longer need to write every part down.
Goals:
∙ Students will be able to stop when their character goes to a new place (or same place but time has passed) and name the place.
∙ Students will be able to name the important thing that happens each place.
∙ Students will be able to represent their character’s journey on a timeline.