Character Book Report
Due Monday, November 16th
Choose One
1. Create a life-sized model of your favorite character and dress him/her as they are dressed in the book. Stand behind your character and describe yourself as the character. Tell what your role is in the book and how you relate to the other characters.
2. Interview a character from your book. Write at least ten questions that will give the character the opportunity to discuss his/her thoughts and feelings about his/her role in the story. However you choose to present your interview is up to you. One idea might be a puppet show. (Be sure you have well thought out answers.)
3. Write a diary that one of the story's main characters might have kept at different point in the story. Remember that the character's thoughts and feelings are very important in a diary.
4. Write a FULL (physical, emotional, relational) description of two of the characters in the book. Draw a portrait to accompany each description.
5. Do a collage/poster showing pictures or 3-d items that related to the character in your book, and then present your collage to explain the items you chose and how they describe the character.
6. Choose birthday gifts for one of the characters involved in the story. Make an illustration of the gifts and explain why you chose them.
Be sure that whatever book report you choose to do shows a deep understanding of the character/s and the story.
READ for at least 20 minutes at home every day! Be sure to fill out your Reading Log every time you read. You must have your Log with your Orange Folder in class every day. You must also have your independent reading book with you. You are unprepared for class without them.
UNIT: Readers infer and grow ideas about characters.
OBJECTIVES/GOALS
- Getting to know the main character in your novel by describing what kind of person he or she may be.
- Think about what the main character is doing (their actions) or what may be happening to the character.
- Strong readers notice the choices the characters make.
- Strong readers think about the decisions that the character has made.
- Strong readers notice how th characters interact with one another.
- Strong readers make connections to how the characters react.
- Strong readers make text to text connections.
- A character is best described by what they do. Through a character's actions, a reader learns whether the character is kind, selfish compassionate...
-A character's thoughts reveal why they may behave a certain way. This internal conflict is also shown through a characters behavior.
-The author may use other characters in the story to reveal a character. For example, in Beauty and the Beast, Belle realizes the Beast is actually kind and gentle when he saves her from the wild dogs. The reader begins to see him that way as well.