Teaching Resource
Novel Study - Character Map Worksheet
3 worksheets to assist with analysing characters in a class novel.
Use this resource in the classroom when helping students study characters in a class novel.
This worksheet provides students with the opportunity to analyse the characteristics and motives of the protagonist and antagonist in a novel, as well as one supporting character.
Students will have the opportunity to comment on the following features of each character:
- physical features
- personality traits
- interactions between the protagonist and antagonist
- the motivations of the antagonist
- resolutions the protagonist has been involved in
- ways the supporting character has progressed the storyline.
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NSW Curriculum alignment
- EN2-1A
Communicates in a range of informal and formal contexts by adopting a range of roles in group, classroom, school and community contexts
- EN2-7B
Identifies and uses language forms and features in their own writing appropriate to a range of purposes, audiences and contexts
- EN2-8B
Identifies and compares different kinds of texts when reading and viewing and shows an understanding of purpose, audience and subject matter
- EN2-11D
Responds to and composes a range of texts that express viewpoints of the world similar to and different from their own
- EN2-12E
Recognises and uses an increasing range of strategies to reflect on their own and others’ learning
- EN3-1A
Communicates effectively for a variety of audiences and purposes using increasingly challenging topics, ideas, issues and language forms and features
- EN3-5B
Discusses how language is used to achieve a widening range of purposes for a widening range of audiences and contexts
- EN3-7C
Thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and ideas and identifies connections between texts when responding to and composing texts
- EN3-8D
Identifies and considers how different viewpoints of their world, including aspects of culture, are represented in texts
Victorian Curriculum alignment
- VCELA277
Identify features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text, and understand how texts vary in complexity and technicality depending on the approach to the topic, the purpose and the intended audience
- VCELT306
Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of view
- VCELT313
Identify aspects of literary texts that convey details or information about particular social, cultural and historical contexts
- VCELT341
Analyse and evaluate similarities and differences in texts on similar topics, themes or plots
- VCELT365
Make connections between own experiences and those of characters and events represented in texts drawn from different historical, social and cultural contexts
- VCELT283
Describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features of literary texts
- VCELY287
Read different types of texts for specific purposes by combining phonic, semantic, contextual and grammatical knowledge using text processing strategies, including monitoring meaning, skimming, scanning and reviewing
- VCELT314
Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features on particular audiences
- VCELT342
Identify and explain how choices in language, including modality, emphasis, repetition and metaphor, influence personal response to different texts
- VCELT284
Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readers’ interest by using various techniques
- VCELY288
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts
- VCELT315
Recognise that ideas in literary texts can be conveyed from different viewpoints, which can lead to different kinds of interpretations and responses
- VCELY320
Analyse the text structures and language features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACELT1603
Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of viewElaborationssharing and discussing studentsâ own and othersâ understanding of the effects of particular literary techniques on their appreciation of t...
- ACELT1605
Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readersâ interest by using various techniques, for example character development and plot tensionElaborationsexamining the authorâs description of a c...
- ACELY1690
Identify characteristic features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the textElaborationsdescribing the language which authors use to create imaginary worlds; how textual features such as headings, subheadings...
- ACELT1608
Identify aspects of literary texts that convey details or information about particular social, cultural and historical contextsElaborationsdescribing how aspects of literature, for example visuals, symbolic elements, dialogue and character descriptio...
- ACELT1609
Present a point of view about particular literary texts using appropriate metalanguage, and reflecting on the viewpoints of othersElaborationsposing and discussing questions, such as âShould this character have behaved as they did?â, and be...
- ACELT1610
Recognise that ideas in literary texts can be conveyed from different viewpoints, which can lead to different kinds of interpretations and responsesElaborationsidentifying the narrative voice (the person or entity through whom the audience experience...
- ACELY1701
Identify and explain characteristic text structures and language features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the textElaborationsexplaining how the features of a text advocating community action, for example ...
- ACELT1613
Make connections between studentsâ own experiences and those of characters and events represented in texts drawn from different historical, social and cultural contextsElaborationsrecognising the influence our different historical, social and cu...
- ACELT1614
Analyse and evaluate similarities and differences in texts on similar topics, themes or plotsElaborationsexploring texts on a similar topic by authors with very different styles, for example comparing fantasy quest novels or realistic novels on a spe...
- ACELT1604
Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features of literary textsElaborationsexamining the authorâs description of a characterâs appearance, behaviour and speech and noting how the characterâs d...
- ACELY1691
Read different types of texts by combining contextual , semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge using text processing strategies for example monitoring meaning, cross checking and reviewingElaborationsreading new and different kinds of texts with...
- ACELT1795
Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features on particular audiencesElaborationsorally, in writing or using digital media, giving a considered interpretation and opinion about a literary text, recognising t...
- ACELT1615
Identify and explain how choices in language, for example modality, emphasis, repetition and metaphor, influence personal response to different textsElaborationsnoting how degrees of possibility are opened up through the use of modal verbs (for examp...
- ACELY1692
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating textsElaborationsmaking connections between the text and studentsâ own experience and oth...
- ACELY1801
Analyse strategies authors use to influence readersElaborationsidentify how authors use language to position the reader and give reasons (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)(View this topic on www.australiancurriculum.edu.au )
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