ENG4U - Unit 1: Components of Chapter 1

Chapter 1 ppt

“The tree was not only stripped by the cold season, it seemed weary from age, enfeebled, dry. I was thankful, very thankful that I had seen it. So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all.... Changed, I headed back through the mud. I was drenched; anybody could see it was time to come in out of the rain”

-A Separate Peace

Today's activity:

Write about another student in the class using at least three different methods of characterization. (Be kind!) The other people in the class will try to guess who it is.

STORY EXCERPTS - examples

The Lorax (Background: Just after the Once-ler cuts down the first tree and sews a Thneed, the Lorax appears):

"He was shortish and oldish and brownish and mossy. And he spoke with a voice that was sharpish and bossy. "Mister," he said with a sawdusty sneeze, "I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees." He was very upset as he shouted and puffed. What's that thing you have made out of my Truffula tuft? "I repeat," cried the Lorax, "I speak for the trees." "I'm busy," I told him. "Shut up if you please."

The Hunger Games

I swing my legs off the bed and slide into my hunting boots. Supple leather that has molded to my feet. I pull on trousers, a shirt and tuck my long braid into a cap and grab my forage bag…as soon as I'm in the trees, I retrieve a bow and sheath of arrows from a hollow log…there's food if you know how to find it. My father knew and he taught me some before he was blown to bits in a mine explosion. There was nothing even to bury. I was eleven then. Five years later, I still wake up screaming for him to run.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Dudley's favorite punching bag was Harry, but he couldn't often catch him. Harry didn't look it, but he was very fast. Perhaps it had something to do with living in a dark cupboard, but Harry had always been small and skinny for his age. He looked even smaller and skinnier than he really was because all he had to wear were old clothes of Dudley's, and Dudley was about four times bigger than he was. Harry had a thin face, knobbly knees, black hair, and bright green eyes. He wore round glasses held together with a lot of Scotch tape because of all the times Dudley had punched him on the nose. The only thing Harry liked about his own appearance was a very thin scar on his forehead that was shaped like a bolt of lightning. He had had it as long as he could remember, and the first question he could ever remember asking his Aunt Petunia was how he had gotten it. "In the car crash when your parents died," she had said. "And don't ask questions." Don't ask questions—that was the first rule for a quiet life with the Dursleys.