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4.4.1 Intensive Reading: Short story (Class Reader)
English · Grade 8 · 2 lessons in the design
What this covers
- Characters in a short story; adjectives for traits
- Contextual clues for character traits; compare and contrast
- Role-play; connecting characters to the learner's life
What you will be able to do
- identify the characters in a short story
- use contextual clues to infer character traits of the characters in a short story
- acknowledge the role of characters in a short story
Key questions
“What should one look for when reading a story?”
“What qualities do you admire in people?”
Lessons
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Who is in the story?
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizRead a class-reader extract, list the characters, and gather say/do clues toward their traits.
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Infer traits, compare, role-play
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizName character traits from clues, contrast Njeri and Koech, role-play them, and link a trait to your own life.