Today we reflected on the post it process. If you were absent, you will need to write for about 4 minutes in the "all about me as a reader section" of your notebooks about the strategies you have used and what you have discovered about what works as far as taking post its goes. We shared in round table style different strategies in hopes of helping those of you still struggling develop plan of attack to make it an easier process. We then discussed why it is important to look at characterization (see Tip below). Then we spent time going over what we discovered about each of the four characters and what that made us think about WHY Gary Paulsen might have included the character.
HW: Longwrite focus on one character trait from your IR book and support it with three pieces of evidence.
Characterization
Tip
Characterization never stops! Stay aware of how
a character is described, how others react to the character, and how those
things change throughout the text. Changes in characters are often crucial to
the meaning of a story.
