I thought of this activity because yesterday was the birthday of John Venn (think Venn diagram) and my husband's class just completed a Character and Me activity for Boy Overboard using a venn diagram (pictures to come).
On a page in their books the students drew three overlapping circles (see example venn diagram below) and wrote their name in one circle, Bibi's name in another and Jamal's name in the final circle.
They then went on to write things that they all shared in common in the very centre of the diagram, things they shared with each of the characters where their circles overlapped, and things the two characters had in common where their circles overlapped.
They then wrote things that were not common for each character in the outer parts of the circles.
I have put an example worksheet below. Feel free to download it and change the headings to suit whatever text you are reading.
boy_overboard_character_and_me.docx |