Just like in real life, characters in short stories show their true personalities through their words and deeds. Decipher the character development in Karen Russell's "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves" with a set of activities centered around collecting evidence to support literary analysis.

Concepts

reading comprehension, literary analysis, character development, tone, word choice

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use in a language arts focus on word choice and tone in literary analysis
• Have your class apply the same reading skills and practices to other works of literature

Classroom Considerations

• You can find the short story in the attached module overview on page 258 (the page number listed in the agenda refers to the original publication page)
• The lesson is the third  of 17 in a ninth-grade module
• The schedule extends a short story over several days, which may not be the most efficient use of your instruction time

Pros

• Comes with a character development graphic organizer that you could apply to other books or stories
• Provides a completed worksheet for reference
• Complete unit and module overviews are attached, as well as a document form of the lesson plan

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.9-10.3 SL.9-10.1.c