Characterization Practice

Angelina Jolie was very aggressive during rehearsal.

• Direct Characterization

• Indirect Characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

“There’s no way I’m letting him beat me,” thought Andrea, and she willed her legs to move faster toward the finish line that seemed a million miles away. 

• Indirect Characterization

• Direct Characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

Orson sat on the couch. He wanted to change the television station, but the controller was all the way at the end of the couch by his feet. Orson sort of scooted toward it and attempted to grab it with his feet. The controller fell and landed several feet away from him. Orson gave up on changing the television station and just watched whatever was playing.

• Direct Characterization

• Indirect Characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

Khloe Kardashian spent three hours straightening her hair and putting on makeup.

• Direct Characterization

• Indirect Characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

Ms. Cleary is a very generous person. Last week, she donated $5,000 to a fundraising campaign that was raising money to rebuild the local orphanage.

• Indirect Characterization

• Direct Characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

“Then one morning I walked to school and it was canceled. For good, I was told. No school for Jews...I was disappointed” (Gratz 9).

• Direct Characterization

• Indirect Characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

"'See the birds? I've been watching them at the feeder. I love to see them come. Even the blue jays' ... She lapsed into silence, and I looked out the window. There was no feeder. No birds" (Cormier 3).

• Direct Characterization

• Indirect Characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

"'Mike, Mike, I didn't think you'd come,' she said, so happy, and she was still Ethel Barrymore..." (Cormier 3).

• Direct Characterization

• Indirect Characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

The woman had to climb the shelves at the grocery store in order to reach her favorite type of cereal located on the top shelf.

• Indirect Characterization

• Direct Characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

1. “Perhaps it had something to do with living in a dark cupboard, but Harry had always been small and skinny for his age . . . Harry had a thin face, knobbly knees, black hair, and bright green eyes."

• Direct Characterization

• Indirect Characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3