What is it?
Students read a fiction or non - fiction text, they reflect on which attributes and characteristics the individuals in the text exhibit.
This works well with non - fiction, however would also be a worthy exercise when looking at historical figures, authors or contemporary leaders or even the climax in a story.
How to do it?
Students read a text. They focus on one character or individual for each graph. They decide on ten attributes - they can be general. For example - brave, shy, creative, friendly.
The students then shade each attribute out of ten or whatever the bar graph goes to.
When this activity is finished, the class must reflect on what score they gave each character, for each attribute and explain why.
For example - In the the graph above, if the character was CINDERELLA, students would write words along the bottom like - Kind, hard working, selfish, patient, resilient, creative and nasty.
They would then shade the column for each to show how strongly CINDERELLA displays that attribute. For example, For PATIENT a student would probably shade the column almost to the top. For NASTY a student might just shade to zero.
The discussion and reflection are what is really integral, students need to discuss WHY.
How did it go?
This has been used in a few focus groups. Students always enjoy this activity and the graph makes thinking about and reflecting on a character's attributes very easy.Materials
Attribute graph hand out (On the U drive.)
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