---
title: Complex Characters
description: Students will display multiple points of view.
image: https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/complex_characters-001-1.png
---

**Subject: ESL/ELL (English Language Learning)**

**Lesson Length: 45 mins - 1 hour**

**Topic: Narration, Expression, Conflict**

**Grade Level: 10, 11, 12, 9**

**Standards / Framework: **

- [WIDA: ELD.LA.9-12.Narrative.](https://wida.wisc.edu/sites/default/files/resource/WIDA-ELD-Standards-Framework-2020.pdf)
  
  [Expressive](https://wida.wisc.edu/sites/default/files/resource/WIDA-ELD-Standards-Framework-2020.pdf)

**Brief Description:**  Students will display multiple points of view.

**Know Before You Start:** Students should be familiar with what it means to contrast opposing viewpoints and, as a class, have read at least one book or novel with main characters who don’t agree.

**Hook:**

- Ask students: 
    - “What are some examples of differences of opinion?”
    - “Can every type of conflict be resolved?”
    - “How can looking at conflict in literature help us resolve conflicts in our own lives?”

**Activity:**

- Have students read a book that has characters with conflicting ideas.
- Have students identify the conflict or conflicts between two characters.
- As a class, create a comic using a conflict from the book for students to use as an example.
- Using the sample comic as a guide, have students create a comic displaying a person or character that represents two literary characters from another story they have read that contains a conflict.

**Closure:**

- Have students share their comics with the class or in small groups.
- Have students explain why they chose that book and that conflict from the book.
- Discuss how similar conflicts may appear in students’ lives, e.g., differing ideas about how to accomplish the same goal; different beliefs about people.
- Emphasize how conflict resolution occurs or does not occur in stories, just as in real life.

**Differentiation:**

- Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
- Allow students to work in pairs or groups as needed.
- Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.
- Allow students to choose the type of conflict they wish to portray; some students will be comfortable with more significant conflicts than others.
- Allow students to use digital dictionaries/translators as appropriate for your class policy.

**Resources:**

- Comic to print or display: [Comic](https://share.pixton.com/rh9uttb).
- [Character Map](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/Printables/Graphic%20Organizers_01.pdf)
- [T-Chart](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/Printables/Graphic%20Organizers_02.pdf)

**Suggested Content:**

- [![](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/thumbnail-charliechocolate.png) Charlie And The Chocolate Factory ](https://content.pixton.com/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory)
- [![](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/thumbnail-lightning.png) The Lightning Thief ](https://content.pixton.com/the-lightning-thief)
- [![](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/thumbnail-hobbit.png) The Hobbit ](https://content.pixton.com/the-hobbit)
- [![](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/thumbnail-octobersky.png) October Sky ](https://content.pixton.com/october-sky)
- [![](https://img.pixton.com/content-pack/1629220213478301696/thumbnail.png) The Hunger Games ](https://content.pixton.com/the-hunger-games)
- [![](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/thumbnail-cask.png) The Cask Of Amontillado ](https://content.pixton.com/the-cask-of-amontillado)

**Suggested Story Starters:**

- [ The Unlikely Friendship ](https://story-starters.pixton.com/the-unlikely-friendship)

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