In literature there are many characters found in writing. These characters are protagonists, heroines, heroes, and other support characters that make a story interesting. The reader is connected to a character by written images that we find familiar and can care about. A book that is powerful and enjoyable has a good, believable, and strong analysis of a character or characters.
This lesson can work two ways. The first possible lesson could be to read a book, analyze the character in the story and then create a bust of that character using your analysis. The second possible lesson could be that the students create a bust and then generate a character analysis that will then allow them to write a story for the bust. Both lessons would be an excellent way to delve into the building and understanding of character analysis, good stories, as well as art.
Complete Lesson Plan -- Character Bust (PDF)