Week of 6 February 2012

MONDAY

        What is your favorite after school activity?  Do you do this by yourself or with others?  Why do you like this activity?

TUESDAY  

A character sketch is a written description of a character.  It is written either as pre-writing activity or as part of an analysis.  Write a character sketch about the main character in your current or most recent fiction book.  Be sure that you aren't writing a list of traits.  If you assign a character trait to your character, remember to include an example from the book that explains or proves your opinion of him or her.

    Here is an example beginning: remember to write @ least 7 sentences.

    John Smith is a young boy who tries to solve a neighborhood mystery.  He is naturally curious and this is why he started to notice strange things at his neighbors house.  Since he is such a good organizer, he started keeping a log of visitors to the house.  John is someone that everybody likes so when he started asking a lot of questions, people were very willing to answer them. 

WEDNESDAY

    Still working and thinking about characterization, and its place in short fiction...reread the second paragraph on page 366.  What do you know about Dolores from reading this paragraph?  Why is it important for us to know all of these things about her so early in the story?

THURSDAY

    Free Write

FRIDAY