Character Studies--Taking Stock and Self-Assessing

We'll just be looking at this strand--Inferring about Characters and Other Story Elements/Character Traits

□ I wrote about the big things the main character does, says, and thinks.

□ I wrote about what these big things show about the character’s feelings.

□ If the main character faces a problem and solves it, I wrote about how the character does that.

□ I wrote an idea about the kind of person a character is, telling a trait (and not a feeling).

□ When a character makes a big decision, I could use what happened earlier and the character’s traits to tell why the character made that choice.

□ I wrote about how the character is complicated. He/she is more than one way (has multiple traits).

□ I also wrote about what’s going on inside the character (motivations and wants).

□ When I thought and wrote about a character, I showed that I knew that small actions can signal something big.