Novel Unit Characterization Part 2

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Novel UnitCharacterization Part 2

• Wednesday, January 7, 2009

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Warm Up

• Complete p. 90 of the Handout (2-10A)
• Have TB (page 160) out for check

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CharacterizationHomework Answers Jim the Boy
KEY BlueDIRECT PurpleINDIRECT UnderlinedFi
gurative language simile, metaphor, analogy

• Jims mother opened the stove door with a
  dishrag. Mama was tall and pale and handsome her
  neck was long and white. Although she was not yet
  thirty years old, she wore a long, black skirt
  hat had belonged to her mother. The skirt did not
  make her seem older, but rather made the people
  in the room around her feel odd, as if they had
  wandered into an old photograph, and did not know
  how to behave. On the days mama wore her mothers
  long clothes, Jim didnt let he screen door slam.
  
• There he is, Mama said. The birthday boy.
• Jims heart rose up briefly, like a scrap of
  paper on a breath of wind, and then quickly
  settled back to the ground. His love for his
  mother was tethered by a sympathy Jim felt
  knotted in the dark of his stomach. The death of
  Jims father had broken something inside her that
  had not healed. She pulled the heaviness that had
  once been grief behind her like a plow. The
  uncles, the woman of the church, the people of
  the town, had long since given up on trying to
  talk her into leaving the plow where it lay.
  Instead they grew used to stepping over, or
  walking inside, the deep furrows she left in her
  wake. Jim knew only that his mother was sad, and
  that he figured somehow in her sadness. When she
  leaned over to kiss him, the lilaced smell of her
  cheek was as sweet and sad at once as the smell
  of freshly turned earth in the churchyard.

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Exit Quiz Answers

• Jonas is a round character.True. He changes
  during novel.
• This is indirect characterization She was
  beautiful her eyes blue, hair ebony and shiny,
  and her skin a tawny caramel.False. It is
  direct. The author tells you she is pretty and
  describes it in detail.
• Jonass father is a minor character.True. He is
  a figure in novel, but the conflict does not
  revolve around him continuously, like it does
  Jonas.
• The Giver opens with a flashback.True. The plane
  and fear remembered by Jonas.
• Knowing what you know of Ms. Boschees traits, if
  she was a character in a novel, she would be a
  flat character. False. She has a robust
  personality and multiple traits.
• An antagonist can only be a person.False.
  Antagonists can be forces (e.g., nature, poverty,
  prejudice, etc.)

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REVIEW Characterization

• Character Trait qualities, attitudes, and values
  a character possesses (e.g., intelligences,
  reliability, stubbornness, beauty)
• Characterization Way or ways a writer reveals a
  characters traits
• Direct comes right out and tells you what a
  characters personality or appearance is like.
• Doodle was just about the craziest brother a boy
  ever had.
• Indirect writer hints at what a character is
  like through actions, dialogue, thoughts,
  appearance and other characters reactions, words
  or thoughts
• She leaned over to kiss him.

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REVIEW Making InferencesVisual Representation
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Readers TheaterHamadi

• Turn to page 161 in Readers Journey.
• Preview story
• Read Guiding Question at top of page
• Read Background paragraph
• Review Vocabulary Builder
• Look at visuals
• Read the Literature in Context on p. 163
• Read About the Author on p. 170
• Assign reading parts
• narrator 1, 2, 3 Susan, Dad, Hamadi, Eddie, Lisa
• Assign acting parts
• Susan, Dad, Mom, Hamadi Eddie, Lisa, Tracy

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Reading Focus

• Characterization
• Underline direct/indirect characterization for
• Susan, Hamadi, Eddie, Tracy
• Write what it states/infers about the character
  in the margin
• Figurative language
• Simile and metaphor
• Circle FL and box signal words

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Homework

• Finish story on own
• HWcomplete p. 171, questions 1-5
• Complete 2-10A, if not already done from warm up