Making Inferences to Create Character

OBJECTIVE
Students will define and graph character traits in order to write about a memorable character.

The Memorable Person (you’re going to write about)

• Remember Paul Auster’s “He remembers” and “I remember”?
• He wrote about himself as if he were another person.
• What do you think about the character he created?
• In the next two days, we’ll be working on character traits.

THE BLUES & “The Treasure of Lemon Brown”
By Walter Dean Myers
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THINK ALOUD
As you read ask yourself connecting questions, visualize, predict:
What does the story make me think about?
What does it remind me of?
What was life like for Lemon Brown?
What does Lemon Brown mean when he says, “Every man got a treasure”? How might this relate to the theme of the story?

Tell me about the Characters, please.
Glossary of Literary Terms
Character traits: unique attributes or characteristics of a character
Infer: to deduce, guess or reason
Inferences: to draw a conclusion or make a decision based on knowledge or evidence
Dynamic characters: Characters who change throughout the story
Static characters: Characters who remain the same throughout the story