Subject: ESL/ELL (English Language Learning)
Lesson Length: 45 mins - 1 hour
Topic: Narration, Expression, Conflict
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.
- Character Map
- T-Chart
Suggested Content Packs:
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Lightning Thief
The Hobbit
October Sky
The Hunger Games
The Cask of Amontillado
Suggested Story Starters:
