Description and Character

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In your notebook, draw a detailed map of your neighborhood. Label what you consider to be important landmarks.

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Summer Reading

• In class essay. • Hand written.• You will choose from multiple questions.• Prove that you read it.• I’m not out to punish you.• Counts as a major paper.• Punctuation counts.

Workshop

• You will workshop your writing with small groups.

• If you are willing, you may submit your draft to be workshopped by the class.

• Only constructive.

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Mark with a number (1-5) five places on your map that can be accompanied by a good story.

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1. Find a person sitting near you. 2. Shake his or her hand and introduce yourself.3. Exchange maps4. Discuss maps. Translate art when necessary.5. At the bottom, write the number of the

location about which you’d like to hear the accompanying story.

6. Hand maps back to owners.

Write what you know…

Create a bubble organizer with your location in the center.

Get your detail on. Be VERY specific. Think about your five senses.

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Which of the below sentences is incorrectly punctuated? Write the incorrect sentence in your Bell Ringer section and correct it. Also, write why it is incorrect.

Fred went to Wal-Mart. He bought a door jam.Fred went to Wal-Mart, and he bought a door jam.Fred went to Wal-Mart; and bought a door jam.Fred went to Wal-Mart; he bought a door jam.

Descriptions

• Talk location– Small Groups

• Talk character– Full Group

Creating a Character

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Are they not all ducks?

Your job, as a writer, is to introduce a character in a way that:

1. is interesting 2. brings them to life for the reader 3. conjures up an image that is as close as possible to the way you see them in your mind 4. gives the reader more information than just their physical appearance - i.e. also gives an insight into their personality and what drives them.

(McCalister 12)

Balance

Public

Persona

Private

Persona

“The characters contain the human element, that element of human destiny, for the reader to identify with” (Fletcher 56).

How does a writer do that?

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Which of the following is an incorrect use of a comma? Please explain why.

My friend, Frank, is cool.Frank, my friend, is cool.Frank, the cool guy, is my friend.My friend, Frank is cool.

Description Exercise!

Rules:1. Describe the object and anything around it.2. Do not tell us what it is. You may describe parts, but not

the object.3. Explain the atmosphere. What is happening around it?

How did it get there? Create an entire story if you’d like. Anything is fine.

4. Google Image the word “object” to choose your model. Save the picture in a googledoc.

5. Get started.6. Keep it appropriate7. Be ready to share.