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E108 – Accelerated Freshman English – Mrs. Krause
Name:
Direct and Indirect Characterization
September 3-4, 2014
CRITICAL LEARNING STANDARDS SKILLS BEING TAUGHT/ASSESSED: •
CLS 2: Cite appropriate textual evidence to support both literal and inferential analysis
LEARNING TARGETS FOR STUDENTS:
□ CH-1:^ I can identify examples of each method of indirect characterization. □ CH-2:^ I can explain why a quote is an example of a method of indirect characterization. □ CH-3:^ I can make an inference about a character’s personality based on examples of indirect characterization. □ CH-4:^ I can explain how several examples of indirect characterization work together to describe a character’s specific personality trait.
CALENDAR
Day Learning Target^ Whole Class Independent Work Needs Practice Above & Beyond Tuesday, 9/ CH-
DI: on characterization Read iBook chapter
!CCP: indirect
characterization (as exit slip) Wednesday, 9/
CH-
!(hand back and review
CCPs)
watch video on Indirect Characterization: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=Wtt4MtjI5l (from 3:00 – end) AND complete Indirect Characterization Practice Sheet
watch clip of movie from beginning of novel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCM- sEpyh1Q OR sketch Lennie or George based on description in Ch. 1
CH-
FUA-1: from CCP & discuss why Choose quotes each is an example of a method of indirect characterization.
Thursday, 9/6 CH-1!
CH-2!
CH-
DI: new piece of literature on model next FUAs over
overhead projection unit!
Day Learning Target^ Whole Class Independent Work
Friday, 9/7 CH-1!
CH-2!
CH-
FUA-2: characterization in indirect La
Linea!
FUA-3: from FUA & discuss why Choose quotes each is an example of a method of indirect
characterization.!
FUA-4: an inference about your make & explain character’s personality based on examples of indirect characterization (as exit slip)
Monday, 9/10 (hand back and review FUA-4)
review adjective choice with Mrs. Krause and group members
find examples of indirect characterization in YouTube clips: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Kd43CoSmy
!https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=Fs6c99uOeNo Marlin = overprotective CH-4 DI: characterization Model paragraph writing by demonstrating how to transition from FUA-4 worksheet to written
paragraph!
alternating with!
FUA-5: characterization write paragraph
E108 – Accelerated Freshman English Name: Mrs. Krause CCP Date: Period:
COMPREHENSION CHECK POINT: INDIRECT CHARACTERIZATION
DIRECTIONS : Re-read this excerpt from Chapter 1 of Of Mice and Men. Underline any sentences that describe Lennie. When you’re done, go back to the sentences you underlined and decide whether they are examples of indirect characterization. If they are, identify what kind of indirect characterization it is by labeling each with
one of the bold-faced words below.!
□ SAYS : a character’s words
□ THINKS : a character’s private thoughts
□ EFFECT : a character’s effect on other characters
□ ACTIONS : a character’s actions
□ LOOKS : a character’s appearance
They had walked in single file down the path, and even in the open one stayed
behind the other. Both were dressed in denim trousers and in denim coats with brass
buttons. Both wore black, shapeless hats and both carried tight blanket rolls slung
over their shoulders. The first man was small and quick, dark of face, with restless
eyes and sharp, strong features. Every part of him was defined: small, strong hands,
slender arms, a thin and bony nose. Behind him walked his opposite, a huge man,
shapeless of face, with large, pale eyes, and wide, sloping shoulders; and he walked
heavily, dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws. His arms did not
swing at his sides, but hung loosely.
The first man stopped short in the clearing, and the follower nearly ran over him.
He took off his hat and wiped the sweat-band with his forefinger and snapped the
moisture off. His huge companion dropped his blankets and flung himself down and
drank from the surface of the green pool; drank with long gulps, snorting into the
water like a horse. The small man stepped nervously beside him.
“Lennie!” he said sharply. “Lennie, for God’ sakes don’t drink so much.” Lennie
continued to snort into the pool. The small man leaned over and shook him by the
shoulder. “Lennie. You gonna be sick like you was last night.”
Lennie dipped his whole head under, hat and all, and then he sat up on the bank
and his hat dripped down on his blue coat and ran down his back. “That’s good,” he
said. “You drink some, George. You take a good big drink.” He smiled happily.
George unslung his bindle and dropped it gently on the bank. “I ain’t sure it’s good
water,” he said. “Looks kinda scummy.”
Lennie dabbled his big paw in the water and wiggled his fingers so the water arose
in little splashes; rings widened across the pool to the other side and came back
again. Lennie watched them go. “Look, George. Look what I done.”
George knelt beside the pool and drank from his hand with quick scoops. “Tastes
all right,” he admitted. “Don’t really seem to be running, though. You never oughta
drink water when it ain’t running, Lennie,” he said hopelessly.
“You’d drink out of a gutter if you was thirsty.” He threw a scoop of water into his
face and rubbed it about with his hand, under his chin and around the back of his
neck. Then he replaced his hat, pushed himself back from the river, drew up his knees
and embraced them. Lennie, who had been watching, imitated George exactly. He
Once, I tied her to a bench outside the grocery shop and ran in for some bread.
Outside, Marcus had dragged the metal bench down the road by her neck. She stood
several yards from the store, attached to the object, her entire body convulsing. She
stared at me in shock and horror; how could I have put her in such a terrible
predicament?
E108 – Accelerated Freshman English Name: Mrs. Krause FUA-2 Date: Period:
FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITY #2: INDIRECT CHARACTERIZATION
DIRECTIONS : Read the following excerpt from La Linea , a novel about immigration by Ann Jaramillo. Underline any sentences that describe EITHER Miguel or Elena (see me for your assigned character). When you’re done, go back to the sentences you underlined and decide whether they are examples of indirect characterization. If they are, identify what kind of indirect characterization it is by labeling each with
one of the bold-faced words below.!
□ SAYS : a character’s words
□ THINKS : a character’s private thoughts
□ EFFECT : a character’s effect on other characters
□ ACTIONS : a character’s actions
□ LOOKS : a character’s appearance
“Elena, I need your help. ¡Levántate!” I shook her shoulders roughly. She groaned and pushed my hand away. “Let me sleep, Miguel. Please, please.” “No, come on. Now!” I pulled off her blankets and jerked the pillow out from under her head. It was already late and I had a lot to do. The goat needed to be slaughtered for the fiesta, and I needed Elena to do it. An hour later Elena finally made it down to our little barn. I’d already tethered the goat and gathered the tools for the slaughter. Tío used a gunshot to the brain to kill his goats, but Elena preferred a hammer. “Tío should at least have the guts,“ she always said, “to get up close to an animal he’s going to kill.” Elena held the hammer rightly in her small hands and looked the goat right in the yes. She took a deep breath and raised the hammer above her head. I turned my eyes, but I heard the sure, solid blow that Elena brought down on the goat’s skull. Its knees buckled and it fell to the ground. The goat lay motionless. “Pronto, Miguel,” Elena admonished. I gripped my sharpened knife and cut swiftly through the jugular vein. Together, we strung up the goat and hung it head-downward so the blood would drain out of the body and into the bucket below. The metallic odor of the freshly spilled blood made
She threw the organs, one by one, onto the flames. With each throw, she stood straighter and straighter. She watched until be organs had turned to ask and drifted off in the breeze that blew toward the North. E108 – Accelerated Freshman English Name: Mrs. Krause FUA-4 Date: Period:
FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITY #4: INDIRECT CHARACTERIZATION
Look back over the examples of indirect characterization you found with your group. Consider them together as a whole:
all those words the character SAYS
the thoughts they THINK
the EFFECT they had on their
the other character
their ACTIONS
the way they LOOK
In your own words, summarize the details these examples of indirect characterization reveal.
SAYS THINKS EFFECT ACTIONS LOOKS
What do all those details reveal about this character’s personality? What one adjective best describes how the author, Ann Jaramillo, wants us to perceive this character? Use that adjective to complete the sentence below:
In the excerpt from La Linea , Ann Jaramillo characterizes Miguel/Elena as _________________. (^) (circle your character) (write one specific adjective here)
The dictionary definition of ____________________ is _________________________________ (write specific adjective here, too)
__________________________________________________________________________
____
trait of one of the two main characters in La Linea?
I will model how to write each part of the paragraph, then you will write each part together. Each group will share their writing for class critique before moving forward to the next part of the paragraph.
TOPIC SENTENCE:
POST-CRITIQUE REVISED TOPIC SENTENCE:
EXAMPLE INTRODUCTION W/ CONTEXT:
POST-CRITIQUE REVISED EXAMPLE INTRODUCTION:
LEAD-IN + QUOTE:
POST-CRITIQUE REVISED LEAD-IN + QUOTE:
EXPLANATORY SENTENCES:
POST-CRITIQUE REVISED EXPLANATORY SENTENCES:
TRANSITION SENTENCE INTO 2ND^ EXAMPLE:
POST-CRITIQUE REVISED TRANSITION SENTENCE INTO 2ND^ EXAMPLE:
EXAMPLE INTRODUCTION W/ CONTEXT:
POST-CRITIQUE REVISED EXAMPLE INTRODUCTION:
