CHARACTERIZATION THEME PROJECT
DUE DATES
Paragraph Writing plans _____
The Rest of the Project _____
DIRECTIONS: This project has five parts to it.
YOU WILL BE GRADED ON THE FOLLOWING (SEE RUBRICS FOR DETAILS):
Puppet Bag
Interview Questions/Answers
Oral Presentation
Writing Plan for Characterization
Paragraph for Characterization
Writing Plan for Theme
Paragraph for Theme
Choose 10 questions from below to ask and answer in both writing and your oral presentation. You may use the piece of paper during your presentation. For the presentation, introduce your character by name, gender, and age. Write about your character using the following ideas: physical appearances, actions, thoughts, feelings, what others think and say about the character.
Then ask and as your character answer 10 from the following questions.
Paragraph Writing plans _____
The Rest of the Project _____
DIRECTIONS: This project has five parts to it.
- The first part is designing the front of a paper bag to look like one of the main characters from your fiction book. Make this paper bag puppet look like the examples you saw in class. Do the face, hair, and clothes as the author described them in the book; even create facial expressions.
- The second part consists of interview questions you are going to ask your character in a presentation to the class. These interview questions will investigate the characterization of the person, or thing, you chose to report on for this project. You will choose nine question from below and then make up a tenth of your own that is important to the development of the character. You will need to write down the questions and then in writing come up with accurate answers based on your interpretation of the character and the novel.
- The third part of this project is oral. You will have to go before the class, and using the questions, which you have kept inside the bag, you will interview your character as if you are a talk show host like Oprah or Jay Leno. You will both ask and answer the questions. You will project your voice, make eye contact with the entire audience, and give a professional oral presentation without relying on crutch words.
- The fourth part is two writing plans, one for the characterization paragraph you will write and one for the theme paragraph you will write.
- The fifth part is a written portion of two paragraphs. One paragraph will cover characterization and the other will be about the theme of your fiction book. Both paragraphs must follow the paragraph format taught in class.
YOU WILL BE GRADED ON THE FOLLOWING (SEE RUBRICS FOR DETAILS):
Puppet Bag
Interview Questions/Answers
Oral Presentation
Writing Plan for Characterization
Paragraph for Characterization
Writing Plan for Theme
Paragraph for Theme
Choose 10 questions from below to ask and answer in both writing and your oral presentation. You may use the piece of paper during your presentation. For the presentation, introduce your character by name, gender, and age. Write about your character using the following ideas: physical appearances, actions, thoughts, feelings, what others think and say about the character.
Then ask and as your character answer 10 from the following questions.
- What are some of your secrets and how has it affected your life to have to have kept these secrets?
- What are your goals? In other words, what do you want from life and why are those important to you?
- Who do you dislike and why? Give examples from the book.
- What have been three challenging problems or conflicts you have had in your life? Explain with examples from the book
- What are your hobbies? Why do you enjoy doing these? What do you gain from them?
- What were you thinking just before ______ (the part of the book known as the climax)? Explain what you were thinking. Explain what happened. What caused it? What were some effects of the event?
- If you could do one thing over again and have it end with a different conclusion, what would it be and why? What would be the different conclusion?
- What’s the worst thing that ever happened to you? How did it affect you, and how did you change over time?
- What do you consider your three greatest strengths?
- What do you consider your three greatest weaknesses?
- What was your motivation for when you did _________ in the book? If you could have done it differently,
- What are you afraid of? Why? How have you tried to conquer that fear?
- Who’s the one person you trust the most and why
- What changes have you gone through since the beginning of the book?
- What lessons have you learned? Give examples from the book.
COMMON CORE STANDARDS
RL.7.1 Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
RL.7.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
RL.7.3 Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).
W.7.5 Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
W.7.9 With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language
L.7.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
a. Explain the function of phrases and clauses in general and their function in specific sentences.
b. Choose among simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to signal differing relationships among ideas.
c. Place phrases and clauses within a sentence, recognizing and correcting misplaced and dangling modifiers.*
L.7.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
a. Use a comma to separate coordinate adjectives (e.g., It was a fascinating, enjoyable movie but not He wore an old[,] green shirt).
b. Spell correctly.
RL.7.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
RL.7.3 Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).
W.7.5 Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
W.7.9 With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language
L.7.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
a. Explain the function of phrases and clauses in general and their function in specific sentences.
b. Choose among simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to signal differing relationships among ideas.
c. Place phrases and clauses within a sentence, recognizing and correcting misplaced and dangling modifiers.*
L.7.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
a. Use a comma to separate coordinate adjectives (e.g., It was a fascinating, enjoyable movie but not He wore an old[,] green shirt).
b. Spell correctly.