Descriptive Character Analysis
Two Parts:
1) Paragraph about characters appearance
2) Picture of character
DUE: Tuesday, October 8
Students are working on paragraphing skills and learning about how authors develop characters. Authors spend a lot of time thinking about a character's appearance, thoughts and actions and family history. Some information may not even make it into the story, but it is important for the author to know.
The last few weeks, students have chosen a minor character from Peter Pan to analyze. They have thought out the character's appearance, thoughts and actions, and family history.
For Monday the second (or for some a third) draft of the Appearance paragraph is due. Students are also to draw a picture of that character making sure it fits their description.
We are working on paragraphing skills and this will be a big focus for us throughout the year. Paragraphs are building blocks for our writing.
We used the hamburger model Hamburger Model Template as a way to organize our ideas. We have talked about the importance of having a strong claim in our topic sentence, using our key words in all our sentences and using transitions to help the sentences flow together.
claim- stating a strong opinion or fact that introduces the topic
Example: Tinklebell is the prettiest fairy in all of Neverland
key words- are words that are found in the topic sentence that will be used in all the other sentences to keep same ideas in the paragraph.
Example: prettiest, fairy (from above claim example)
transitions-words that move the writing along
Example: first, next, also, in conclusion
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