This may serve as a basis for major or minor character. Students are to use the Internet to investigate another country or region of the United States. Students are to learn about the environment, the economy, the population, the people, etc. Using this research, the students are to create a minimum of one character. Remind them to think of Hawthorne and other authors such as Steinbeck and how they used the people and influences around them to create characters.
Students are to engage in an e-mail correspondence or a chat discussion.
From their discussions, the students should create dialogues, description, mannerisms, actions, etc. for a fictional character based on a real life person. This lesson plan does require internet access. The purpose of this plan on plot is to allow students to use internet technology and apply that technology to a learning situation in a classroom environment. The attributes of plot that the students discover through their directed and supervised internet use will allow them to learn about plot individually and apply their knowledge by creating a short story that has a well developed plot line. Students will access internet sites as directed.