Character Development

What character trait is revealed?
After pulling an all-nighter studying, Sarah moved through the dance routine sluggishly.  She was off-beat and missed several moves, but she pushed herself through the routine.

• passionate
• nervous
• tired
• bored

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What character trait is revealed?
After pulling an all-nighter studying, Sarah moved through the dance routine sluggishly.  She was off-beat and missed several moves, but she pushed herself through the routine.

• passionate
• nervous
• tired
• bored

How is the character's traits revealed?
Marcy sat in class, drumming her fingers on her desk.  Thinking back to that morning, she felt remorse over the way she had talked to her mom.

• actions
• thoughts
• statements
• interactions with other characters

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Haley smiled at her baby sister as she toddled toward her. “You can do it, walk to me!” Haley said. She couldn’t wait to see Grace walking and running. Haley wanted her sister to do so many fun things with her, like jumping rope and playing hide and seek. When Grace wobbled and fell a few seconds later, Haley scooped her up and said, “That was better than yesterday!”

• jealous

• encouraging

• impatient

• honest

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Isaac was putting his six new baseball cards in his baseball book when his brother, Keith, came into his room. “Hey, little bro, you putting up your new cards?” said Keith. ”Yeah!” beamed Isaac. “So you spent all your birthday money, huh?” asked Keith. “Nahhh, I’m saving ten dollars!” answered Isaac. “That’s dumb, you should spend it all,” replied Keith. Isaac looked down at his new cards and smiled. He didn’t mind ignoring his brother when he knew he didn’t need anymore cards right now.

• shy

• satisfied

• courageous

• responsible

Dajuan knew he needed a perfect score on his Virginia Studies project to pass the class. He was not great with remembering all the information on the tests, but Dajuan knew he could do this project. It took a lot of effort to get all his materials and information to make his Thomas Jefferson puppet. But now that he had what he needed he was going to work all night if it was necessary. Dajuan worked tirelessly to do his best on his project and was pleasantly surprised to see a perfect score on his puppet when he got it back from his teacher.

• intelligent

• determined

• tempermental

• lazy

Josiah saw his grandmother pull into the driveway as he was finishing his homework. He ran outside to see what she bought at the store. His grandmother said, “How was your day, Josiah?” He told her it was pretty good and asked her how many bags she had in the back. She said it was plenty of stuff, but she could get it. He smiled and said, “Nah, grandma, I’m gonna help you!” Josiah reached in and grabbed as many bags as he could safely carry.

• athletic

• courteous

• intelligent

• joyful

Austin’s dad said, “Son, go ahead and do your homework so it will be finished.” This made Austin mad. He doesn’t want anyone telling him what to do. Even though he wanted to do his homework before his dad said anything, now he wasn’t going to do it. Austin will wait until his dad gets annoyed and walks away to start doing his homework so it seems like his idea.

• lazy

• content

• stubborn

• anxious