Readers Expect Characters to Face--and React to--Trouble

Readers Expect Characters to Face--and React to--Trouble

Open Ended

What kind of person is the boy who chose option A?

Open Ended

What kind of boy might choose option B?

Let's try this together.

What problems has Opal faced?

Opal's Challenges

• Mom is gone

• Dad is a "turtle"--doesn't open up

• New in town and has no friends

• Dewberry boys tease her

Now turn your attention to your club book.

• Think about the challenges that your main character has faced so far.

• Now, think about how your character responds to these problems. Does she face them head-on? Avoid them? Try so solve them in another way?

Open Ended

What problem(s) has your character faced, and how did he/she respond?