In the spirit of the season, Winthrop Avenue and Shore Road students focused on literary characters in making decisions on how to dress up for Halloween this year.

During Readers’ Workshop, fourth grade students in Gina Foppiano’s, Deirdre Golden’s and Lauren Bianco’s classes explored and analyzed literary characters during a fiction unit. In addition to writing a report about their favorite characters, the students created masks to represent their subjects. The masks were worn during Flipgrid video presentations, in which each student discussed key events from the story through his/her character’s perspective. The character mask project was also the culmination of the students’ exploration of favorite book characters and his/her point of view.

This time of year was also an opportunity for sixth grade students to look deeper into literary characters’ roles and behavior within the context of fiction. The students went a step further by examining how their chosen literary characters exemplified the district’s shared leadership principles and core values. Their favorite part of the assignment, however, was dressing up as the character they studied.