Characterization Notes RIGHT SIDE

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Characterization Notes RIGHT
SIDE

• Characterization is telling what characters are
  like.
• Direct- tells us directly what a character is
  like or what a persons motives are.
• Indirect- shows us a character but allows us to
  interpret for ourselves the kind of person we are
  meeting.
• Character traits are what make a character an
  individual. These traits indicate how a person
  feels and acts.

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Categorizing Direct and Indirect Characterization
Paired Activity

• With your partner, decide if A and B in paragraph
  pair 1 is an example of direct characterization
  or indirect characterization?
• Do the same with paragraph pair 2.

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CHUNK and CLUNK (10 min)
Categorizing Direct and Indirect
Characterization

• Directions
• Divide class in half
• Each team will have a set of characterization
  examples
• Chunk the examples in one of the two piles
  (direct characterization) or (indirect
  characterization)

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Think-Pair-Share- LEFT SIDE

• Write a sentence describing a girl named Patty to
  define each type of characterization.
• Direct
• Indirect

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Methods of Characterization S T E A L

• Authors reveal the traits of their characters
  through action, dialogue, and direct statements.
• Speech (a characters own words)
• Thoughts (What a character thinks)
• Effects on Others (how other characters in the
  story feel and interact with a character)
• Actions (what a character does)
• Looks (how a character looks)

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Identify the Methods of Characterization Class
Activity

1. She is wearing tennis shoes and a shapeless grey
   sweater over a summery calico dress.
2. Get out of my way! screamed Debbie I was here
   first!
3. Enter two relatives. Very angry. Potent with
   eyes that scold, tongues that scald.
4. Every few yards, we abandon the struggle, sit
   down, and pant.
5. Maybe Im just not very bright, Clovis thought.
   I didnt pass that basket-weaving class . . .
   again.

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Types of Characters

• Round- has many traits like a real person
• Flat- has very few traits
• Static- stays the same
• Dynamic- develops and changes
• Subordinate/Secondary- minor characters who dont
  play a main part to the storys plot

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Exit Slip-

• List the five methods of characterization.
• (STEAL)
• Stick it on the Wall

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Remember This?

• Define each character type
• dynamic
• static
• flat
• round

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Character Motivations

• Motivation is what drives a characters actions.
• It explains behavior and reveals personality.
• Writers rarely make direct statements about a
  characters motivation. Instead, they plant clues
  and rely on readers to make inferences from those
  clues.

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Making Inferences

• An inference is an educated guess- a guess based
  on good evidence.
• To make an inference
• gtLook for details in the text
• gtRelate the details to what you
• know about life
• gtMake a careful guess

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Making Inferences

• An inference is a logical statement based on
  facts.
• It is not a wild guess.

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Making Inferences

• Suppose your sister said, Guess what were
  having for breakfast? Suppose, also, that you
• Could not see anything
• Could not smell anything cooking
• Could not hear anything cooking
• Had not been told what was for breakfast

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Making Inferences

• Any answer you gave would be a wild guess because
  you had no knowledge of the facts. If, on the
  other hand, you had
• Smelled bacon
• Seen the orange juice
• Heard the toaster pop up

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Making Inferences

• Then you would have many facts on which to base
  your answer. Thus, it would not be a wild guess
  if you said, We are having _______, _______, and
  _______ for breakfast. Quite the opposite! Your
  answer would be based soundly on known facts.

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Using Facts to Make Inferences

• Use the five Ws to make inferences.
• Who
• When
• Where
• What
• Why

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Making Inferences by Using the 5Ws Clues (15
min)

• Complete the Exercise E Making Inferences Sheet
• Lets Discuss it

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What Does Your Speech say about you?
RIGHT SIDE

• We use language to express our identity. Every
  time you speak, you give listeners information
  about who you are and where you come from.
• Dialect (also called colloquialism) is a way of
  speaking that is characteristic of a particular
  region or group of people.

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What Does Your Speech say about you?

• Dialect can determine
• your social class
• your education
• Standard English
• Is easier to understand
• Is the spoken language in schools/universities
• Accepted by institutions
• Recognized by the government

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Colloquial Expressions and DialectClass
ActivityMatch the colloquial English with
standard English.

• aint .... a havent /hasnt got/am
  not/arent
• coz / cos .... b going to
• dunno .... c I dont know
• em .... d let me
• Gimme .... e you, your
• gonna .... f want to
• gotta .... g have got to
• lemme .... h them
• lotta .... i what are/do you
• wanna .... j lot of
• whatcha .... k because
• ya .... l give me

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Brain Break-Litter Box

• Rules/Directions
• Partners ball up a piece of paper and place it on
  the desk.
• Partners pick up the paper and place the paper
  ball in the trash bin.
• Using elbow and elbow only!!

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Characterization Literary Terms Pg. 1019 (10
min) Study for Test !!

• Direct characterization
• Indirect characterization
• Protagonist
• Antagonist
• Subordinate character
• Motivations
• Dialect
• Inference

• Round character
• Flat character
• Dynamic character
• Static character
• Dialogue
• First-person narration (point of view)
• Sequence

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Illustrating Character Traits Group Word
Knowledge Project(You will be given a rubric)
(35 min)

• Directions Students will receive a list of five
  words and will create illustrated character trait
  sheets for each of the words.
• Students will take one of four roles
• Researcher looks up the definitions of character
  traits.
• Remember, its important to choose the right
  definition.
• Recorder writes on the project paper. You are
  responsible for the word, the definition, and the
  description of the action.
• Director thinks of actions that show the
  character traits.
• Also, help the researcher put the
  definitions in your own words.
• Illustrator draws pictures that show the
  character traits.
• Other group members may help color your
  pictures.

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Example of Character Trait Illustration
The character trait ? The definition ? A drawing showing how the character trait could be implied or indirectly linked to a character? A ________ character might ? Description of how the character trait could be shown. Gregarious One who is friendly, sociable, or likes company. A gregarious character might shake hands with new people they meet.
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Exit Slip-

• List three of the five words your group learned
  with a synonym to match to show the meaning of
  those words.
• Stick your post-it-note
• on the wall.

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Character Traits WorksheetIndividual Activity
(15 min)

• When your group finishes the project complete the
  in-class section of the character traits
  worksheet.
• In class Define the character trait. Include a
  synonym for the word.
• Homework Write what a character showing that
  trait might do.

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Brain Break Stand complete these rebus
puzzles
Four in Language Foreign Language
Knee on Lights Neon Lights
Tuesday
Middle of the Night
Back Seat Driver
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Review Character Traits

• Which character trait from your character traits
  worksheet would match each synonym?
• Jealous Full of
  Desire
• Thoughtful Mean
  Hateful
• Nice Respectful Good at your
  job
• Answerable Firm
• Gullible
  
• Acting strangely-Up to something

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Exit Slip-

• Choose three character traits you have learned
  today, and on your index card write a complete
  sentence with each.

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Around the Room Literary Terms
(20 min)

• With your partner you will move around the room
  to complete each workstation.
• If you do this correctly, you will end where
  you started.

Complete chart for each workstation.
Folder Color (definition) Definition Write each definition and then find your answer. Copy only what is highlighted. Folder Color (answer)
Blue Green This is the beginning of the story where characters, setting, and conflicts are introduced. (exposition) Green
When you finish, begin the literary terms
crossword puzzle. Complete both tasks to earn
one quiz grade!!
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Integrity What does it mean?

• Having sound moral principles.
• Having the courage to do what is right,
  even if it is difficult.
• Being honest, fair, and trustworthy.

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Class Activity Create a list of people who show
or should show integrity and a list of people who
often do not show integrity.
Integrity No Integrity

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Class Discussion

• Is it more natural to have integrity, or more
  natural not to have integrity?
• What might cause people to have integrity or to
  lose their integrity?

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Class Discussion

• Can people improve the integrity of others
  through their own actions? Why or why not? If
  yes, how? If no, why not?

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Interactive Notebook Quickwrite Think and write
about the integrity you show through your
actions, including actions at school. (7 min)

LEFT SIDE

• How do those actions affect others? What can you
  do to improve your own integrity and integrity of
  those around you? Include the following in your
  writing
• Write about a time when your integrity was
  challenged or compromised and what you did or
  what you could have done differently.
• How has your integrity (or lack of integrity)
  affected the integrity of other people?

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T Thank You, MamA Langston HughesG short
story

• Pages 86-90

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MEET THE AUTHOR
LANGSTON HUGHES

• He was born in Joplin, Missouri on February 1st ,
  1902
• City of Joplin, Missouri
• Motto "Proud of Our Past...Shaping Our Future'
• His great-great-grandfather was the first Black
  American to be elected to public office.
• He really wanted to live with his parents, but he
  could not.
• The Negro Speaks of Rivers was one of his most
  famous poems appearing in Brownie's Book.
• He received a scholarship to Lincoln University,
  in Pennsylvania, where he received his B.A.
  degree in 1929.
• Langston Hughes died of cancer on May 22, 1967.

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BEING REALISTIC

• What would you do if someone came up from behind
  you and tried to steal your purse/wallet? How
  would you react? Would you react positively or
  negatively?
• What would motivate a person to steal?

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End of paragraph 1Class Discussion

• Make connections What would you do if you were
  the boy? If you were the woman?
• Make judgments Was it okay for the woman to kick
  and shake the boy until his teeth rattled?
  Justify her actions.

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Class Activity
Sequence the first part of the story according to
the events.
when a boy ran up behind her and
then she reached down, picked up the boy by his shirt front and shook him
the boys weight and the weight of the purse combined caused him to lose his balance
she was a large woman with a large purse walking
tried to snatch her bag but
until his teeth rattled
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Paragraphs 3, 4 and 5Class Discussion

• Make a judgment Is the boy a hardened criminal?
  Do you think he has done this before? Give
  evidence.
• Make connections What would you do in a
  situation like this when you are being questioned
  by an adult?
• Should an adult ask the question the woman did
  and expect an honest answer?

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Class Discussion

• How old is Roger? Which method of
  characterization is the author using to show
  this?
• Make a judgment Is the boy being honest with his
  apology? If so, why do you think he is being
  honest?

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Class Discussion

• What did Mrs. Jones mean when she said, You
  ought to be my son. I would teach you right from
  wrong.
• Do you think all children who do wrong has not
  been taught right from wrong? Or are they just
  deciding to do wrong?
• Infer What is it that Mrs. Jones is telling the
  boy in the key speech about coming in contact
  with her?
• Predict What will she do to make the boy
  remember her?

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Class Discussion

• What can you infer about Mrs. Bates marital life,
  family life, and financial status from where she
  lives?

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Class Discussion

• What evidence on page 89 does Mrs. Jones give us
  to show that Roger is hungry?

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End of paragraph 30-36Class Discussion

• What were Rogers motivations for trying to steal
  Mrs. Joness purse?
• What does she mean by neither tell God, if he
  didnt already know.

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End of paragraph 37Class Discussion

• Infer What has changed so that Mrs. Jones does
  not protect her purse or try to keep Roger in her
  apartment?
• Make a judgment Why does Roger want to be
  trusted?

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End of storyClass Discussion

• Express in your own words what Mrs. Jones means
  by shoes got by devilish ways will burn your
  feet.
• Make judgments Would it have been a better story
  if she had stayed in his life?

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Evaluate This! (Left Side)

• Which is the dynamic character
• and which is the static character in this
• story. Give details to explain your answer.
• Mrs. Jones
• Roger

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A letter from Roger Homework LEFT SIDE

• What do you think Roger will be like ten years
  after his encounter with Mrs. Jones?
• Compose a letter from Roger using the first
  person narrative structure. Include Rogers
  present address in the letter. Be sure to state
  the purpose of his communication after all these
  years.

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Writing a Letter
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What are the parts of a letter?

• What is the very first thing you put on a letter?
  Clue It goes in the upper right corner.
• Date
• What do you call the line that starts
• Dear ____,?
• Greeting

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What are the parts of a letter?

• What do you call the main part of your letter?
• Body
• What do you call the line that starts
  Sincerely?
• Closing
• What do you call the line that contains your
  name?
• Signature

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Where does the date go?
1
1
July 4, 2002
2
2
3
3
4
5
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Where does the greeting go?
1
July 4, 2002
2
2
Dear Mom,
3
3
4
5
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Where does the body go?
1
July 4, 2002
2
Dear Mom,
Thank you for taking me shopping yesterday. I
had a great time finding new school clothes. I
cant wait for school to start so everyone can
see my new clothes.
3
3
4
5
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Where does the closing go?
1
July 4, 2002
2
Dear Mom,
Thank you for taking me shopping yesterday. I
had a great time finding new school clothes. I
cant wait for school to start so everyone can
see my new clothes.
3
4
Love,
5
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Where does the signature go?
1
July 4, 2002
2
Dear Mom,
Thank you for taking me shopping yesterday. I
had a great time finding new school clothes. I
cant wait for school to start so everyone can
see my new clothes.
Love,
5
Fred
Love,
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This is what your letter will look like.
1
July 4, 2002
2
Dear Mom,
Thank you for taking me shopping yesterday. I
had a great time finding new school clothes. I
cant wait for school to start so everyone can
see my new clothes.
3
Love, Fred
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3-2-1 Exit Ticket
Fill out your ticket on the index card provided.
3 Things I learned today about writing a letter
2 Things I found interesting about the story we read
1 Question I still have about characterization
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Interactive Notebook Activity Complete the chart
list the traits in the correct columns in the
chart below, and find details in the story to
support your answers. (15 min) LEFT SIDE
Character Traits Character Traits
Self-assured tough lonely generous young Kindhearted troubled timid strong scared Self-assured tough lonely generous young Kindhearted troubled timid strong scared
Mrs. Jones Roger

Story Details Story Details



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Honors Reflective Writing Task Choose and copy
one prompt then respond. (It must be one page in
length)

• Does poverty cause people to lose their
  integrity? Support your answer with
• examples and evidence.
• Are some people born with more integrity than
  others? Support your answer
• with examples and evidence.
• Some say that there is honor among thieves.
  Can people who do not obey
• the laws of the land and who do criminal
  acts still have integrity by being
• loyal to fellow law-breakers? Is this
  integrity? Why or why not? Support your
• answer with examples and evidence.
• School work often challenges our integrity. When
  is it dishonest or unfair to
• help a friend with school work? Is it
  ever the right thing to do?
• If you have not always had integrity, it may
  have caused someone to distrust
• you. Perhaps this is a friend, a teacher
  or a parent. Did you re-establish trust
• with this individual? How long did it
  take to re-establish trust? Use specific
• examples or evidence.

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Study for Test!!

• Study all literary terms and notes.