Building characters

Goals

• Understand some of the ways that writers use language to create characters
• Analyse the use of language in a literary text

Lesson Plan

• You could start by asking students to think about some of the ways that writers use language to create fictional characters. What makes a convincing character? What are some of their favourite characters from fiction, and why?
• Next, talk students through the first passage from Jekyll & Hyde.

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