Lifefile Character Analysis

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Lifefile Character Analysis

• adapted by Kay Steineker

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Objectives
The What After reading Brave New World or
Island of Dr. Moreau, students will research one
of the characters in the novels. Students will
also collect their own information about the
character after reading the novels. Then
students will create a very readable and
informative yet highly condensed biography of
that character to share with fellow classmates.
This gives students practice in researching,
paraphrasing and summarizing information. GLE
3C GLE 3D http//dese.mo.gov/divimprove/curriculum
/GLE/FINAL-CA_GLE_10.18.04.pdf
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Concept Map
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Objectives
The How Students must locate a photo or
illustration of their subject to incorporate at
the beginning of their Lifefile page. This can
be the character from a movie still or an
original illustration by the student. This
photo/illustration must convey some relevant
trait about the character instead of a generic
mug shot. The material must be put into 3
columns and between 10-15 paragraphs of
information about their subject spread relatively
evenly over the three columns. The Lifefile must
indicate the characters name somewhere in a side
margin or another creative way.
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Documentation not noted at this time because
teacher wants students to find these images on
their own
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Objectives
The Wow Students must try to convey their
subjects persona through both their picture
selection/illustration and the selection and
quality of the details and items they choose to
incorporate in the characters lifeline. How
well a student manages to link the information
together in an informative and appealing way in
the piece instead of simply having 12 to 15
different chunks of information on a page is also
a consideration for the WOW factor of this
assignment. Look at handouts of Stephen King and
Alfred Hitchcock.
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Brainstorming
Students will form groups by which novel they
have read and brainstorm traits of the characters
in the novel.
Keep in mind the audience People that are
students own age Fans of science fiction
literature/extrapolative literature
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Portrait of a Character
After brainstorming in groups, fill out the
Portrait of a Character handout and the
research handout.
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assignment summary
Students will create their own Lifeline page over
a character, which will include facts and
inferences from the novels and information
gathered during research. The text portion
should be typed using 10-12 point easily readable
typefaces (no Wingdings, please), in
single-spaced paragraphs. The paragraphs should
spread over three columns and some mechanism such
as boldfacing the the first few words of each
paragraph and/or double spacing between
paragraphs should be used to make the page easy
to read. Students should be sure to include the
label Lifeline, the characters name and a
photo/illustration of the character in apt places
on the page.
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Evaluation
Have fun and create a worthy project. Of course,
reading the novel helps immensely. Look at your
character as a real person.
evaluation
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References
idea taken from Life Magazine regular feature by
Valerie Stokes
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Career Areas
Skills developed in this lesson are used by
people working in any career who has to research
analyze data and adapt it to work place
environments and communicate effectively in any
work place.
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Congratulations! I am looking forward to seeing
your creations!