Wednesday, 22 May 2013

Characters and Setting Anchor Charts

Here are the anchor charts for this weeks discussions, as well as last weeks for setting.  For your review!

Setting Anchor Chart

What is setting
  • time and location of a story
  • Sights, sounds, colours, and textures are all vividly painted in words as an artist paints images on canvas.
  • Setting can add an important dimension of meaning, reflecting character and embodying theme.
  • The prevailing atmosphere or mood of the novel
  • Internal and external conflictsPotential contrasts between characters or ideas
    • The physical details of the setting are linked with the values, ideals, and attitudes of a place in different times.

    • what the narrator tells the reader 
    • what we can infer from the author's writing




Character Anchor Chart
What can we learn about the character?
  • personality traits
  • background
  • relationships
  • flaws
  • actions
  • change and growth over time
  • physical description
  • behaviour
  • insight into the character's thought processes
We know this because?
  • what the character does
  • what the character says
  • what others say about a character

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