Analyzing Character in Literature

Today, students were given the first 20 minutes of class to either silently read their novel, or complete their news article rough draft. Rough drafts need to be submitted to me before Friday. Please come see me on Thursday anytime between 1 pm and 3 pm if you would like to finish up your news article draft with my help. We then worked through the first part of the story "Communication," with a goal of analyzing the protagonist, Ryan. We discussed that in order to make inferences about his character, we needed to pay attention to what he says, what he does and what he thinks. Those text clues, combined with what we know of people's behaviour, will help us make informed INFERENCES about Ryan's character. We began to fill out the character web (handout is on this blog, if you missed class), with some of the traits we thought fit Ryan's character, including the text evidence which led us to those conclusions. We will complete the character web in class on Monday.