1. Do Now
Take out your Making Inferences Homework.
Open your binders to the Reading & Writing Section.
Clear everything else off your desks.

2. Agenda
Review Inferencing Assignment from yesterday.
Mini-Lesson: Characterization
Characterization Assignment
Objectives
You will understand characterization.

4. You will analyze characters based on their....
Character Traits
Motivations
Conflicts
Opinions
Relationships
Changes They Go Through

6. Character Wheel Write about the Character’s Physical Appearance
Draw a picture that represents a relationship this character has.
Draw a picture that that represents this character
A quote that represents this character
Explain how the character changes
Draw a picture to represent their major conflict

7. Ms. Fleming Character Wheel
Brown hair, brown eyes, Caucasian, 5’4
“Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.”
I used to want to be a hair stylist, now I am a teacher.

8. Now you try…Create a character wheel for Mary from the short story “Too Soon a Woman.”