1. Upstairs/Downstairs

2. Format Your Paper First, divide your paper by drawing a series of stairs from the upper right corner to the lower left corner The left-hand side of the paper is the upstairs, representing a character’s strengths The right-hand side of the paper is the downstairs, representing a character’s weaknesses or challenges

3. Creating the Upstairs Side Upstairs side contains criteria representing a character’s strengths, dreams, and goals  Two Citations (Quotes from the story) Representing a character’s strengths, dreams, and goals Each must be at least two sentences long  Two Images (Pictures or graphics) Representing a character’s strengths, dreams, and goals Each must relate to one of your citations  Two Brainstorms Representing a character’s strengths, dreams, and goals Four brainstorms (each 3 words or less) around each image. Must relate to image.

4. Downstairs Side Downstairs side contains criteria representing a character’s weaknesses, nightmares, and obstacles  Two Citations (Quotes from the story) Representing a character’s weaknesses, nightmares, and obstacles Each must be at least two sentences long  Two Images (pictures or graphics) Representing a character’s weaknesses, nightmares, and obstacles Each must relate to one of your citations  Two Brainstorms Representing a character’s weaknesses, nightmares, and obstacles Four brainstorms (each 3 words or less) around each image. Must relate to image

5. Guidelines Citations, images, and brainstorms must tie-in (connect to each other) Must be multicolored No lined paper Use parenthetical citation Each side must be a different color Be creative, unique, even unusual

6. How to Grade Upstairs/Downstairs Upstairs: 2-Images 8-Brainstorms 2-Citations Downstairs 2-Images 8-Brainstorms 2-Citations Other: Stairs Direction Right to Left Creativity Effort

7. Upstairs/Downstairs Example