This document discusses characterization in books and asks students to consider different aspects of characters such as whether they are strong or weak, rounded or flat, and how their motivations, relationships, thoughts, feelings, voice and actions are portrayed. It provides examples of books with well-developed characters like Harry Potter and Diary of a Wimpy Kid and asks students to consider the difference between direct and indirect characterization and how characters can change. The purpose is to help students understand characterization and why it is important in stories.

16.  Scribble – what you wish your teacher would know about you, biography or description of
yourself

18.  Listen up – power to change your life, you have to be here anyway so might as well make
it count
 Secret – I’m not a very good teacher yet. But you guys are good students. So help me out.

19.  Have you ever had a character you just loved loved loved.
 I was a nerdy weird little teenager and I moved around a lot so I didn’t have a lot of
friends. Sometimes my best friends were characters from books. Harry potter. Yup.

20.  Strong vs weak or rounded vs flat
 Motivations – Internal vs external conflict
 Indirect vs direct
 Relationships, thoughts/feelings, voice, actions
 Physical decriptions

21. Hole in My Life
 http://books.google.com/books?id=pMJTktQyMZEC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q
&f=false

22. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
 http://books.google.com/books?id=Ln4HejRlMXYC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f
=false

26.  Indirect vs direct

27.  Round vs flat
 What makes the difference?
 Change

28.  Conflict/struggle

29.  So what?
 Why does knowing about characterization matter?