Freshman English (English 1)

Mr. Briggs’ Class

Room B3

Monday,

August 24 2009

Please sit quietly while attendance is taken.

Today’s Objective and Learning Standard

Discuss the methods authors use to employ characterization in their stories.

Focus on characterizationcharacterization. Standard: Written and Oral language 1.3- Demonstrate an understanding of proper English

usage and control of grammar, paragraph and sentence structure

Tonight’s Homework – quiz tomorrow Read and understand literary terms on pages 84-85 in

textbook First-person narrationFirst-person narration DialogueDialogue Dramatic monologueDramatic monologue SoliloquySoliloquy Main characterMain character or protagonist or protagonist AntagonistAntagonist Making InferencesMaking Inferences Direct characterizationDirect characterization Indirect characterizationIndirect characterization

Review “The White Umbrella” From Friday

on pages 65-74 in Interactive Reader Answer side questions (in green)

1.1. Complete Chart on page 75Complete Chart on page 75

2.2. Complete review on page 76Complete review on page 76

3.3. Complete Vocab. Development on page 77Complete Vocab. Development on page 77 I.R. Check for Chapter 2I.R. Check for Chapter 2

Characterization (Review)

First-Person Narrator: author uses “I” or “me” to refer to the narrator

The narrator is also the story’s main character or protagonist

Protagonist is often called the main actor of the story.

Antagonist is the opposite of the protagonist – often the bad guy

Making inferences (review)

You use clues from the story You use your own experiences Making good guesses about why a character

acts a certain way or does certain things helps you connect with the story

Why is it important that you connect with the story?

Characterization (new)

Creating Characters Telling what humans are like, the whole point

of telling stories What’s the most obvious way of telling your

friends apart?

- speech

Characterization (new)

First-person narrationFirst-person narration: characters speak directly to the reader

DialogueDialogue: characters respond to each other Dramatic MonologueDramatic Monologue: a poem, speaker

addresses one or more silent listeners- Discusses a specific problem- The speaker reveals a lot about his/her life

and values

Characterization (new)

SoliloquySoliloquy:: delivered by a character alone onstage- Addresses him/herselfAddresses him/herself- Used by Shakespeare in Used by Shakespeare in Romeo and JulietRomeo and Juliet- Direct Characterization: Direct Characterization: Author tells us directly Author tells us directly

what a character is like, their traits.what a character is like, their traits.- Indirect Characterization: Indirect Characterization: Author Author showsshows us a us a

character but allows us to interpret for our character but allows us to interpret for our selves the person we are meetingselves the person we are meeting

“Mother to Son” page 92 textbook

Read the poem Told in Dramatic dialogue (speech by a single

person) Create a poem offering advice about life to a

friend or younger sibling (bro or sis)- May be free-verse- Minimum of 10 lines- Assignment name: “Mother to Son”

Today’s Terms to know

“Thank you Ma’m questions due. On back, or on a separate piece of paper . . . - Write a letter to Mrs. Jones from Roger 10

years after their encounter. Go to page 94 in textbook.

- Use first-person narration.- About 100 words.- Questions from yesterday and letter due at

the end of the period

Today’s review

I.R. Check Review new / old literary terms Connect with poetry