Character Paragraphs

Students brought their analytical acumen to bear in class today, as Character Focus groups worked together on a culminating writing assignment.

Students used the character notes they'd taken on their S.T.E.A.L. charts (see link in post below) to develop a fully fleshed out Character Analysis Paragraph.

It was a single paragraph, written by the whole group, that was due at the end of the class period.

• Here is a link to the assignment students completed.
• Here is a link to the Product document (this is the one that contained the final draft, that I collected)
• And here is the Character Paragraph Rubric (it was on the back of the assignment sheet)

5th period was the exception to this assignment, as they had to play catch-up from yesterday's Tripod survey.

Tonight's HW: (which, unlike yesterday's, applied to ALL classes)

• Read (or refresh) Ch. 11-15
• Full disclosure REPRINT: You're going to read about some very upsetting events that take place in St. Louis. Please don't think that the whole book is about this, or that the point of this autobiography is this, and this alone. It's not. It's about Maya's healing, renewal, and eventual triumph over this passage.
• There will be a Reading Quiz tomorrow, after dealing with these troublesome chapters.