Christmas Character Analysis Assignment - Choosing Stocking Gifts for Characters
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Christmas Character Analysis Assignment - Choosing Stocking Gifts for Character: This activity can be used with any fictional novel or short story and is perfect for the Christmas season. The assignment has students choose stocking stuffers for a main character from their reading and justify their gifts using evidence and direct support from the text. Students love this type of imaginative activity, and it allows them to be both thoughtful and creative.
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Included In This Christmas Character Analysis Assignment:
➡️ Christmas Stocking Stuffer Student Handout: This handout explains the assignment to students in detail to prepare them to write. It includes directions, a sample stocking stuffer write-up, and the traits of writing students will be graded on: conventions, content, and organization.
➡️ Christmas Stocking Stuffer Assignment Graphic Organizers: Students will use these two graphic organizers to write about the four items they have chosen for their character's stocking. They must indicate what the item is and provide a written explanation, using text evidence to justify their choices.
➡️ Christmas Stocking Stuffer Rubric: Use the included rubric to easily assess writing conventions, content, and organization of ideas.
➡️ Christmas Stocking Stuffer Student Handout: This handout explains the assignment to students in detail to prepare them to write. It includes directions, a sample stocking stuffer write-up, and the traits of writing students will be graded on: conventions, content, and organization.
➡️ Christmas Stocking Stuffer Assignment Graphic Organizers: Students will use these two graphic organizers to write about the four items they have chosen for their character's stocking. They must indicate what the item is and provide a written explanation, using text evidence to justify their choices.
➡️ Christmas Stocking Stuffer Rubric: Use the included rubric to easily assess writing conventions, content, and organization of ideas.
What Teachers Are Saying About This Christmas Character Analysis Assignment:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Engaging enrichment activity for any novel/story you happen to be studying around the holidays. Thank you for another fantastic resource!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This Christmas character analysis was such a quick way to assess what my students remembered about characters we'd read about throughout the semester. Thank you!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I love this fun, engaging, and thought-provoking holiday activity that incorporates characterization, writing, and providing textual evidence and support. I ask students to choose a character from our class read-aloud, and then have them share. Get ready for great class discussions!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Engaging enrichment activity for any novel/story you happen to be studying around the holidays. Thank you for another fantastic resource!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This Christmas character analysis was such a quick way to assess what my students remembered about characters we'd read about throughout the semester. Thank you!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I love this fun, engaging, and thought-provoking holiday activity that incorporates characterization, writing, and providing textual evidence and support. I ask students to choose a character from our class read-aloud, and then have them share. Get ready for great class discussions!
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