1. Thursday, September 24, 2015
Objective: Students will be able to analyze characters and explain character motivation.
Vocabulary: Furtive, Recompose, Doctrine, Heritage
Purpose: To discover how different ideas about family traditions can lead to problems.

2. Vocabulary Preview Furtive (adjective) sneaky, secretive
Recompose (verb) to restore to calm, to settle again
Andrew needs time to recompose after his angry outburst.
Doctrine (noun) a set of rules, beliefs, or values held by a group
Heritage (noun) something passed down through generations, such as traditions, values or property

3. Focus: Literary Elements
Inference – A logical assumption that is based on observed facts and the reader’s own knowledge and experience.
Characterization – The way a writer creates and develops characters’ personalities.
Direct characterization – the writer makes direct comments about a character’s personality or nature.

4. Focus: Literary Elements
Indirect characterization – the writer gives clues about a character’s personality or nature using these methods:
Speech – What the character says
Thoughts – What the character thinks
Effects on others – The way the character treats others and the way other characters respond to that character.
Actions – What the character does
Looks – Physical traits of the character

6. Alice Walker (Author) Born 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia
Youngest of 8 children
Father worked as sharecropper, mother worked as a maid
At age 8, she is blinded in one eye by being shot with a BB gun.
Attended Spelman College and Sarah Lawrence College
Activist in Civil Rights Movement as well as for Women’s Rights and other causes
She and her ex-husband, Melvyn Leventhal, were the first legally married interracial couple in Mississippi.
She was in a relationship with the singer, Tracy Chapman in the 1990s.
She has been estranged from her daughter, Rebecca, for many years.

7. WHAT MAKES SOMETHING VALUABLE?
Everyday Use
Essential Question:
WHAT MAKES SOMETHING VALUABLE?