The Hobbit

Description:

Designed to supplement a longer unit on J. R. R. Tolkein’s novel, The Hobbit, these lesson plans provide students in grades six through eight with a method to analyze characters in the story.

Seven mini-lessons, each about 20-30 minutes long, introduce declaring a decision and the six elements of good decision making. Students choose, or are assigned, a character from The Hobbit and they are expected to become the ‘expert’ on that character. The seven decision-making mini-lessons enable students to think critically about their characters as they examine their decisions. The culminating project for the character analysis unit is a formal, three to five paragraph essay in which students comment on the decision-making abilities of their characters, using the language of the six elements.