WONDER YEAR 8 UNIT 1 LESSON 29 CHARACTER

WONDER: YEAR 8 UNIT 1

LESSON 29: CHARACTER PRESENTATIONS

Lesson Focus Today our learning aims are: üTo summarise the characters in the novel üTo develop collaboration skills Key Words: Characters Profile Personality Appearance Evidence Quotations Collaboration

Characters Who are the main characters in the novel?

Character Profiles Working in small groups, you are going to present one of the characters from the novel to the rest of the class. In your presentation you must include the following: § Basic information e. g. full name, age, family, their appearance, etc § Their personality (what sort of a person are they? ) § Their role in the novel (what is their purpose? Do they bring humour? ) § How they come across to the reader (what the reader thinks about them) § How they change in the novel § Direct quotations to support each of the above

Character Profiles Working in small groups, you are going to present one of the characters from the novel to the rest of the class. In your presentation you could include the following: § A poster with a drawn character with labels on § A scene from the novel reinacted to emphasise something about the character § A creative way of presenting the information e. g. interviewing the character for a TV show § A quiz at the end

Character Profiles Working in small groups, you are going to present one of the characters from the novel to the rest of the class. In your groups/presentations you must demonstrate the following: üSummarising skills üTeamwork skills üRetrieval skills üCreative skills üSpoken language skills