Name: < > Class: < > Date: < > Character Reactions Interaction! We do a lot of interacting with others at home, school, work, and play. Story characters, too, participate in a flow of interactions. We might think of this flow of interactions as cause and effect. In this file, you will sketch a character to reveal his or her leading quality as shown by the character's own actions and reactions. We'll make good use of a form called "internal monologue" to reveal what goes on inside the character's head in reaction to something happening on the outside. =================== Prewrite Read, then answer questions about the following character sketch. Can't! thought Rubyianna. Can't go. Biggest dance of the year and Mom says, "Rubyianna, you can't go and that's final!" Her green eyes flashed and her long, copper-red hair threw electric sparks from the vigor with which she brushed. Not a wisp of a curl in her flowing mane! Straight, was how she liked it. Straight and simple. Don't like those giggly curly mops Cindy and Ruth got. It's my hair and I'll wear it the way I want! she shouted at the face reflected in the mirror. She eased in closer and stiffened. Pimples! An eruption of tiny pink blotches hid under her firm, determined mouth. A tear slid from the corner of her eye. Good, she thought. Hope I get a whole face full, a whole body full! I'd rather everyone thinks I can't go to the dance because I've got measles! What is Rubyianna's problem? < > What seems to be her primary emotion or reaction? < > What or who is she reacting to? < > What does Rubyianna see as the solution to her problem? < > Is Rubyianna alone or is another character present in the scene? < > Name and save this file now. (Press ctrl+S, type a name for the file, and press enter.) About the last question: We learn what is going on through internal monologue, or through what the character says or thinks inside her head. She is alone, without another character on the scene. =================== Begin notes to develop the character's actions and reactions. Discuss with a writing partner Rubyianna as a potential character. Details of appearance, behavior or actions, speech, and reactions are already in motion! Discuss possibilities to reveal further the character's leading quality or characteristic. You will want to support what has already taken place, and what you decide is about to happen. Remember, what happens is to take place mostly through internal monologue without bringing another character into the scene. < > =================== Alone or with a Writing Partner: Select a quality from the list or think of your own to characterize Rubyianna. Delete all the words which you feel don't describe the character you are creating, then add any additional descriptive words that come to mind. aggressive helpful positive alert irritable quarrelsome bored jealous relaxed casual kind stubborn determined lazy tired enthusiastic morbid vital fearful nonchalant watchful gentle opinionated joyful < > Rubyianna's leading quality in this sketch will be < >. List possibilities for what could happen next (that is, the middle section of the sketch) to show Rubyianna's character. Example: She might really get the measles. < > =================== Draft a sketch called "Rubyianna" Continue the sketch by using internal monologue; that is, show what happens through what Rubyianna thinks, says, and does without another character entering the scene. Remember, you are writing a character sketch. The focus is on the character at all times. The goal is to reveal the character's leading quality or characteristic through how the character reacts. Rubyianna < > =================== Peer Exchange If you have been working independently, exchange drafts with a writing partner. Compare the character of Rubyianna in the development of the sketch. Do her reactions support her leading quality or characteristic? You may want to print just your "Rubyianna" sketch for this purpose. Scroll back to your draft and revise and edit your work. Then print again! If you haven't done so already, name and save this file now. (Press ctrl+S, type a name for the file, and press enter.) =================== end of activity Copyright Renaissance Learning, Inc.Download Driver Pack
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