Show character through a technique

Supplied materials

• Paper and pencil, or a browser text area. All named people/events/records are fictional learning inputs.
• Worked case: Excerpt A: Jo lays her prize card face down and moves the diagram toward Lea without a narrator naming her trait. Excerpt B: "I will report the tear," Jo said. Excerpt C: Earlier that morning, Jo had packed the model; the next scene is introduced by Later that afternoon. Excerpt D: I now understood that asking Lea for help had changed my own decision.
• Primary check: Excerpt A: "I will report the tear even if I lose the prize," Jo tells Lea. Excerpt B: Jo said, "I will report the tear." Excerpt C: Inside the hall Jo speaks. Across the street at the bus stop introduces the next scene. Excerpt D: Because I learned this once, everyone will learn it from the same experience.

Learn the idea

Characterization can be indirect through action, speech or thought, or direct through narrator description. Explain what the technique reveals using the actual supplied detail.

Identify the information channel before making an interpretation. Separate a narrator’s label from a character’s demonstrated action.

Original worked input: Original excerpt A: Jo lays her prize card face down and moves the diagram toward Lea without a narrator naming her trait. The task is to show character through a technique. The answer is “action”. Evidence: Jo lays her prize card face down and moves the diagram toward Lea without a narrator naming her trait. Reasoning: action is supported because a physical choice reveals character without the narrator directly naming a trait. A narrator’s claim and a character’s behavior can conflict.

1. Read the supplied worked case and identify the part named in this lesson. An adult can model unfamiliar words.
2. Identify the information channel before making an interpretation. Separate a narrator’s label from a character’s demonstrated action.
3. Check the worked solution: action. Evidence: Jo lays her prize card face down and moves the diagram toward Lea without a narrator naming her trait. Reasoning: action is supported because a physical choice reveals character without the narrator directly naming a trait. A narrator’s claim and a character’s behavior can conflict.
4. Use the new primary and practice cases. Give a reason from the actual words before checking the feedback.

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Take it further

Changed-input task: Original excerpt A: Jo thinks, I could still cover that tear, but she has not said this thought aloud. Give an evidence-based answer before looking at the model. Expected reasoning: Evidence: Jo thinks, I could still cover that tear, but she has not said this thought aloud. Reasoning: private thought is supported because the reader sees an unspoken inward thought. A narrator’s claim and a character’s behavior can conflict. Then write a brief alternative sentence, paragraph, source note or scene that demonstrates the same operation; label new fictional details and preserve source limits.

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