Character Evolution: Compare and Contrast Pickles

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The Fire Cat - Compare/Contrast


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Activity Overview

Pickles the cat changes a lot throughout the story. In this activity, students work to identify how he changes from the beginning of the story to the end. Students can work individually or in pairs to research and compile a list of evidence. Students will describe the traits they compiled about Pickles in the beginning on one side, and the traits they discovered that have changed in the end on the other. The traits that remain the same throughout the story will go in the middle.


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Student Instructions

Create a storyboard comparing and contrasting the development of Pickles in The Fire Cat.


  1. Use the template provided by your teacher.
  2. Describe Pickles in the beginning of the story in the first cell and illustrate him then.
  3. Describe Pickles at the end of the story in the third cell and illustrate him.
  4. List things that remained the same in the middle cell.

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