English I
Week 7
This Week’s Focus: Characterization
Direct characterization: stating
traits or telling. He is brave.
Indirect: showing traits from action
or dialogue. He saved the baby from the burning building.
What traits did the protagonist in
the video have? What traits where direct? What traits were indirect?
Monday
Prompt: Have you ever hurt someone
you love? How did you hurt them?
acclaim-applaud, great approval
Grammar: Write sentences on the
board and label each part of speech
Tool Box: Protagonist, Antagonist,
Dynamic, Static
Review Quiz
Listen to The Scarlet Ibis
Tuesday
prompt: What do you think of when you hear the word fiction? What
fiction terms do you know and understand? Place the terms on the white board at your table.
Accessible-easy to approach
Grammar: A
complete sentence has a subject verb and complete thought. Share examples.
Character project assignment reminder
Use your novels to create your
character project
See video and discuss direct and
indirect characterization.
Complete Ibis
Wednesday
Lit Circles Friday (you will need your novels in class tomorrow for a character project)
Character project due Thursday
Fiction test March 14
Prompt: What is the setting of Ibis?
What is the mood? Give an example of foreshadowing from the first page.
Vocab:
Use acclaimed and indolently in a complete sentence. Lab the parts of speech in
the sentence.
Complete Ibis Group work (with lit
circle groups)
On the worksheet on the last two
pages, there are a bunch of quotes. Label the quote: imagery, personification,
metaphor, or simile, and then tell what the meaning behind the language.
“He collapsed onto the grass like a
half-empty flour sack.”
Simile= shows that Doodle is weak
and unable to hold himself up
Thursday
prompt: How does the author of your novel develop characters?
Directly or indirectly?
Get out your Scarlet Ibis HW
morose-gloomy, sullen, and despondent
Lit circles due tomorrow
Turn in your character project
essays and present your visuals to the class
Friday
Free Write
Character Project Presentations
Fiction test Wednesday
Literary Terms
We will be using these literary
terms throughout the school year.
We will use the following terms:
Character Antagonist Protagonist
Diction Denotation Connotation
Imagery Mood Plot
Exposition Rising Action Climax
Falling Action Resolution Conflict
Flashback Foreshadowing Suspense
Point of View Setting Style
Theme Tone Figures of Speech
Metaphor Simile Oxymoron
Personification Alliteration
Character
Antagonist
•.
Protagonist
Imagery
.
MOOD
Plot
PLOTLINE
Exposition
Rising Action
Climax
Falling Action
Resolution
Conflict
External Conflict
Internal Conflict
Flashback
The movie Titanic is told almost entirely in a flashback.
What are some other films that
contain flashback to help tell stories?
Holes
Willy Wonka
Think of some more…
Foreshadowing
Can you think of an element of
foreshadowing?
Suspense
Point of View
Setting
Style
Style is the distinctive way in
which an author uses language.
Word choice, phrasing, sentence
length, tone, dialogue, purpose, and attitude toward the audience and subject
can all contribute to an author’s writing style.
Theme
Tone
Figures of Speech
Metaphor
Simile
Irony
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