This lesson will take a look at verbs and how they are used to show personality traits in a charcter sketch.
Half of the class will recieve one writing sample and the other half will receive the other. http://writingfix.com/PDFs/Chapter_Book_Worksheets/Walk_2_Moons_8th_Samples.doc.pdf
The class first brainstorms about some ways to show that a person is generous. Teacher writes the responses on the board. An example, a generous person would give money to charity.
Then each classmate finds a partner with the "other" sample and reads out loud to each other. Then they have a discussion about the character and how the writer shows the character traits.
Here are some guiding questions for pair and share discussion:
- What verbs do you see?
- What personality traits do you think are being described?
- How does the writer show us these traits?
- What kinds of things does this person do that shows you what kind of peronality trait they have?
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