1. Welcome!
Read chapters 4 and 5 and create discussion questions. Due Wednesday
Vocab quiz Friday
Share journal responses from yesterday.

2. Driving Questions
1. What are the costs and benefits of conformity or nonconformity to a peer group? How do we measure these costs and benefits?
2. How does a person's relationship with his/her peers affect the kind of person he/she will become?

4. Perception
“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” ― John Wooden

5. Conflicting Perspectives
What might cause a character to have an internal conflict?
How does this type of conflict drive the plot?
How can an author communicate this type of conflict?

6. Things to Consider… External: Character’s physical appearance
External desires/actions
How do other people see them?
Internal:
Character’s self perception
Internal desires
Secrets your character might have
How they see other people

7. Assignment Select a character.
Analyze the internal/external perception of your character. Pay attention to the conflicting perceptions.
Create a visual to represent their external/internal appearance. This can be paper/pencil or digital. See examples on the next slide.

8. Examples

9. Reflection
Use the ideas on the outside and inside to draft a reflective essay explaining how others might describe your character (external), how your character would describe themselves (internal), and how these descriptions might be similar or different.

10. Essay Format Introduction:
What you see is not always what you get. People may look at me and think I am _________ , but I am actually ___________. or
What you see is really who I am. People look at me and think I am __________, and they are exactly right.
Body:
Write 2 body paragraphs, one about how others might describe your character and one about how your character would describe themself.
Conclusion:
For a conclusion, write one paragraph comparing the similarities or differences between the two descriptions.