Characterization
What are the two types of characterization?
What is direct or indirect?
A) Guess or skip it
B) Use context and inferences
What is B) use context and inferences
What is an inference?
An educated guess
What is theme?
A) the lesson of the story that applies to everyone
B) A summary of the story
What is A) the lesson of the story that applies to everyone?
The name of the blue fish who can't remember things
What is Dory?
What is the definition of direct characterization?
What is the meaning of unresponsive?
After dropping his phone in the toilet, Robert repeatedly pressed and held the power button, but the device was unresponsive.
A) Not working
B) Not reacting or responding
What is B) not reacting or responding
What is the best way to make inferences in a text?
A) look up information about the text
B) look at context, character behavior, and plot
What is B) look at context, character behavior, and plot?
Theme can be one word
True or False
What is false?
This popular athlete has won four NBA championships and played for the Lakers, Miami Heat, and Cavaliers. He is often compared to Michael Jordan.
Who is Lebron James?
What is the definition of indirect characterization?
How do you make infer the meaning of vocabulary words?
A) Look up the word
B) Use the words you know to infer the meaning
B) Use the words you know to infer the meaning
Where am I?
As I walked in the door, I was amazed at the beautiful colors and smells. I knew it would be hard to decide what I would buy with my $3. The chocolate truffles looked delicious, but they were expensive. The jelly beans were not only cheaper, but so colorful! With so much to choose from, I knew I would be here a long time.
What is the candy store?
A story can have one more than one theme.
True or False
True
What is the rarest M&M color?
What is brown?
Is the following an example of direct or indirect characterization?
Clarissa saw what Jeff had done to Mark, and she quietly picked up her tray and went to sit with Mark. She cut her own sandwich in half and gave Mark half. Then, she started to talk to Mark about his favorite television show until he forgot all about Jeff.
Indirect characterization
What is the meaning of detested?
"Everyone else at the party wanted mushroom pizza but Tim didn't because he detested vegetables"
What is
Hate/dislike
What does this person do?
I often work in the early morning when the light is best. The canvas has had time to dry over night. When I start, I make sure all of my brushes are clean.
What is an artist?
A hare once bragged to all the animals that he could be anyone in a race. A turtle challenged him so they raced. The hare ran fast but the turtle took his time. Soon the hare got tired and took a nap but the turtle kept going and won.
What is the theme?
A) Turtles are faster than rabbits
B) Taking your time produces better results
What is B) Taking your time produces better results
The largest ocean
What is the pacific ocean?
What is speech, thoughts, actions, effect on others, and looks
What is the meaning of inquiries?
When the other moms heard about how Charlene had won the baking contest, her email box was flooded with inquiries for her award winning muffin recipe.
What is
asking/questioning
What happens next?
Alice was carrying a large clothes basket from the bedroom down the stairs to the laundry room.
She struggled under the weight of the basket. She wished her younger brothers would help her.
Instead, they were playing. She had heard them throwing a baseball in the house earlier. She had told them to go outside. They had gone to the backyard, but they had left the baseball on the stairs.
What is Alice trips over the baseball?
A Dog was hurrying home with his food. As he crossed a bridge, he looked down and saw his reflection in the water. But the greedy Dog thought he saw a real Dog carrying a bone much bigger than his own. He dropped his bone and sprang at the Dog in the river, only to find himself swimming for dear life. At last he managed to scramble out, and as he stood sadly thinking about the good bone he had lost, he realized what a foolish Dog he had been.
What is the theme?
Don't be greedy
(Varies depending on evidence)
This actor faced controversy when confronting a comedian that joked about his wife.
Who is Will Smith?