Character development

Character development is

• How a character changes from the beginning of a story to the end of a story as a result of the experiences they’ve had.

• How a character changes at the beginning of a story.

• How a character changes at the end of a story as a result of the experiences they’ve had.

• How a character experiences an event in a story.

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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

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Mrs. Travers was worried that her students were not understanding what she was teaching in class. She decided she would work late after school every single night trying to create the best lessons for her students. She even started coming in early in the mornings as well. Because of this, she started to see a huge increase in her student's grades, and eventually this led to her earning a "Teacher of the Year" award!

What experience did Mrs. Travers have that helped her develop throughout the story?

• She tried nothing and her students ended up learning better because of it.

• She found that if she worked really hard before and after school to make better lesson plans, her student's performance would improve.

• She asked other teachers to help her figure out why her students weren't learning.

• She curled up into a ball and cried until the school year was over.

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__________ is the process of creating a character's personality or image.

• Trait

• Characterization

• Behavior

• Character

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What causes someone to act in a certain way, like an emotion, desire, or need?

• character

• behavior

• motivation

• speech

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_______ is a unique quality or characteristic about someone’s personality.

• Motivation

• Behavior

• Trait

• Characterization

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Generous, courageous, loving, hateful, controlling, deceitful, charming, or playful are examples of____________.

• physical traits

• behavioral traits

• speech

• motivation

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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

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Jalen felt like he never got what he wanted. He was the middle child of three kids in his family. His older sister always got to watch what she wanted on television and his younger brother always got to sit in the front seat of the car. He never got to do anything cool. Jalen was never the first person to do anything new. He wished he had a privilege that was all his own. Then he would feel like he was important like his brother and sister.

• honest

• satisfied

• jealous

• anxious

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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

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