St. Lucy's Character Dev. RL.1.3

St. Lucy's: Character Development RL.1.3

Analyze how complex characters (e.g those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of the text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.

Poll

Think about the show Outer Banks. Think about the beginning of season one to the end of season one. What character do you relate to the most?

Open Ended

What about that character makes you feel you can relate the most to them? What traits do they have that make you feel that way?

Poll

What character do you feel you can relate to the most?

• Mirabella

• Claudette

• Jeanette

Open Ended

Think about the character you picked on the previous slide. Why do you feel you relate to them, the most? Please respond in 2-3 complete sentences and provide evidence from the text.

Learning Target

I can analyze how a character develops over the course of a text.

Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) __________

• develop over the course of a text

• interact with other characters

• advance the plot or develop the theme

Multiple Choice

What are character traits?

• physical descriptions

• qualities, such as insecurity or bravery

• what a character says

• what a character has been through

Multiple Choice

You can learn a character's traits by watching the characters _________.

• thoughts, words, actions

• physical appearance

• spiritual appearance

• thoughts, farts, actions

Multiple Choice

What is direct characterization?

• reactions of other characters give us information we need

• we learn about characters through their physical appearance

• we learn about a character through their thoughts

• an author tells you directly about the character

Multiple Choice

Indirect characterization involves _________.

• learning about characters through their thoughts and action

• an author telling us the character is scared

• an author's comments

• a listing of character qualities from the authors

Multiple Choice

The reason why characters act, think, and feel as they do is ______.

• effect

• motivation

• foreshadowing

• cause

Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) __________

• develop over the course of a text

• interact with other characters

• advance the plot or develop the theme

Multiple Choice

Which evidence best supports Claudette's adaptability to human life?

• Claudette finds the nuns’ transformation of the rectory to be “very scary” (p. 241). She panics and begins to sweat and howl when she cannot do the Sausalito (p. 243).

• When she gets angry at Mirabella she “push[es] her ears back from [her] head” and the nuns find her in the cattails with her “yellow eyes flashing” (p. 234).

• She is able to make “[d]ifferent sorts of calculations” to survive (p. 232) and realizes that it is best to be “solidly middle of the pack” while at St. Lucy’s (p. 232).

• When she comes home to her family, she lies about it feeling like home. “’So,’ I said, telling my first human lie. ‘I’m home.’” (p. 246)

Multiple Choice

What does the following quote reveal about Mirabella's character? Mirabella destroys Jeanette’s “homework binder” and scratches Claudette and Jeanette’s “shins so hard” that they bleed (p. 240)

• Mirabella is loving

• Mirabella is lonely

• Mirabella is destructive

• Mirabella is frustrated

Multiple Choice

Why does the narrator choose to stay in the "middle of the pack"?

• She was extremely shy and didn't want to draw attention to herself.

• She fears she may not be able to control her animal instincts.

• Those who either fail to adapt or adapt too successfully run the risk of being hated.

Multiple Choice

Claudette tells herself she'd "done everything I could" when she packs a lunch for Mirabella but doesn't say goodbye. We can infer that she ________.

• feels powerless to help Mirabella.

• knows she could have done more for Mirabella.

• wishes Mirabella had left earlier.

• is angry at the nuns for expelling her sister.

Multiple Choice

What evidence do we see that the narrator is experiencing "Stage 3" symptoms?

• I wondered what it would be like to be bred in captivity, and always homesick for a dimly sensed forest, the , trees you’ve never seen.

• We grinned back at them with genuine ferOcity. It made us nervous to meet new humans. There were so many things that we could do wrong!

• Etiquette was so confounding in this country. Still, looking at Mirabella -her fists balled together like small, white porcupines, her brows knitted in animal confusion-I felt a throb of compassion. How can people live like they do? I wondered. Then I congratulated myself. This was a Stage 3 thought.

• I could have warned her. If we were back home, and Mirabella had come under attack by territorial beavers or snow-blind bears, I would have warned her. But the truth is that by Stage 3 I wanted her gone.

Multiple Choice

What does the first paragraph of "Stage 5" suggest about the characterization of the narrator?

• Claudette has been fully assimilated into human culture.

• Claudette no longer feels at home in either wolf or human culture.

• Claudette is exultant (happy) at having become so human.

• Claudette is more bewildered by wolf culture than she had expected.

Open Ended

Based on your response to the previous Multiple Choice question, provide evidence from the text to support your answer.

Multiple Choice

Read the sentences from Stage 3.

" I could have warned her. If we were back home, and Mirabella had come under attack by territorial beavers or snow-blind bears, I would have warned her. But the truth is that by Stage 3 I wanted her gone."

What do these sentences reveal about Claudette?

• Claudette empathized with Mirabella, and wanted to return to their native culture.

• Claudette sympathized with Mirabella, but wanted Mirabella to return to their native culture, because she had began to adapt.

• Claudette wanted to admonish Mirabella from the pack without pity.

• Claudette pitied Mirabella and wanted to offer whatever assistance she could to help Mirabella.

Open Ended

Think about Claudette's character actions. How would you describe her as a person? Provide evidence from the text to support your answer.