A study in character:Using S.T.E.A.L to assist

character studyLearning Goals:

Characters and “double consciousness”Homework Review: Connotation, Denotation,

Vocabulary analysisCharacter Think Aloud

Quickwrite

• Take out your packets from your homework and your spiral. Use the next 5 minutes of class to answer this prompt:

• W. E. B. DuBoise speaks of "double-consciousness" - the sense of having to look at oneself through the eyes of others.

• Which characters in To Kill A Mockingbird are basically forced to look at themselves through the lens of others, being expected to behave as other people want them to behave?

Quickwrite continued

• Write for two minutes in the voice of one of these characters explaining how he or she has to change their actions, tone, and behaviors because of double consciousness.

• Read your writing to a peer

Overall..

• What do you like

• What do you not like

• What flat characters do you notice

• What dynamic/round characters do you notice

Homework Review

• Connotation/Denotation

• Vocabulary Analysis

• Historical Analysis Review

Acronym for characterization S.T.E.A.L

• Indirect Characterization

• Direct Characterization

• Consider the character you are focusing on for the character analysis essay.

• Begin applying S.T.E.A.L using quotes and paraphrases from the novel.

Due Tuesday

• Finish the novel

• On a separate paper in your notebook p 36 in the packet

• Vocab 40-42

• Attribute Web p 48 on a separate piece of paper for a character from the trial: Tom, Bob, Mayella, Atticus, or Heck