Interview the Character

One student sits in character from a text; classmates ask questions and the "character" responds.

Procedure

1. After reading a text, one student volunteers to be a character.
2. The student sits in the "hot seat" as that character.
3. Classmates prepare and ask questions.
4. The character answers consistently with the text but can improvise beyond it.
5. Discuss: what did we learn about the character that wasn't explicitly in the text?

Tips

• Unlike regular Hot Seat (vocabulary guessing), this is text-based character exploration.
• The improvisation beyond the text is where deeper interpretation happens.