Scribble – what you wish your teacher would know about you, biography or description of yourself

Listen up – power to change your life, you have to be here anyway so might as well make it count

Secret – I’m not a very good teacher yet. But you guys are good students. So help me out.

Have you ever had a character you just loved loved loved.

I was a nerdy weird little teenager and I moved around a lot so I didn’t have a lot of friends. Sometimes my best friends were characters from books. Harry potter. Yup.

Strong vs weak or rounded vs flat

Motivations – Internal vs external conflict

Indirect vs direct Relationships, thoughts/feelings, voice, actions

Physical decriptions

Hole in My Life

http://books.google.com/books?id=pMJTktQyMZEC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

http://books.google.com/books?id=Ln4HejRlMXYC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Indirect vs direct

Round vs flat

What makes the difference? Change

Conflict/struggle

So what?

Why does knowing about characterization matter?