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Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Creating Characters that Readers Care About

For Thursday - Find 'THE SONG' - you know, the song that you hear and you think..."That's my song"  -I originally stated longer than  two years - ultimately, you just need to make sure that  you and the song have a relationship spanning over a decent time period.


H/W
Recap - Today we looked at crafting characters that readers care about. Remember the tips below on how to build solid characters.

  • 1) Identity the person’s name and relationship to others in the story.
  • For example: Uncle John is your father’s eldest brother and 
  • is married to your mother’s second cousin
  • 2) Describe, as if to a blind person, how the person looks
  • 3) Describe character’s values, attitudes, interests  
  • 4) Describe their habits, quirks, moans
  • 5) Put your character into a vignette (short situation)
  • then: Mix and Match and play with the order of your sentences 
e.g.


When I walked into the cinnamon-scented kitchen, Mother looked up, a smile spreading across her thin face and a twinkle in her cornflower-blue eyes. She wiped the flour from her arthritic hands on the well-worn, yellow apron before hurrying over to hug me. I was shocked to notice that with age, she had begun to shrink and now stood on her toes in order to embrace me. I’d been away too long.
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  • Wednesday - Naive Narrative - In class Reading Response (make sure you have read the story BEFORE class and identified any red flag moments). You will have 30minutes to write about the NARRATORLink to Story
  • Thursday -Subjects and Predicates practice worksheets 1+2 
Homebase
Craft out your ideas for our 'Super CWW skit' - We start writing the skit tomorrow!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr. Buxton,

I was wondering where the google doc of where you record your reading went?


Thanks,
Rehaan

Anonymous said...

Hey Rehaan,
I don't mean to answer for Mr. Buxton or anything, but he said in his last post that we only need to log on our personal reading log.

Kira

Anonymous said...

Thanks Kira!

Rehaan

Unknown said...

thanks kira

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