Character-A-Palooza: Deepening Understanding of Characters Week 3
Essential Questions What challenges do the characters encounter and how they respond to them? How do character interactions change throughout the text? How does the character change throughout the text?
Vocabulary character: the people, animals, or inanimate objects that appear in a story event: the action that occurs in the story interaction: the actions between or among two or more people, ideas, events, or concepts relationship: the way in which two or more concepts, objects, or people are connected, or the state of being connected.
Launching the Thinking Last week we watched a clip about Gru and how he interacted with the girls. Today we will watch a second clip from Wingclips.com in which Gru is putting the girls to bed at the end of the movie. http://www.wingclips.com/movie-clips/despicable-me/changed-his-heart?play=1 How did Gru interact with the girls and what were his words and actions. Based on his interactions, what might have influenced his change of heart?