Vocabulary for Friday: Bean Trees "resilient" - "endeavor"

Bean Trees audiobook of sorts on YouTube: Bean Trees

resilient, notarized, flotsam, legitimate, jetsam, befuddleen, concealedd, instill, quetzal, Mayas, endeavor

enraptured, indelible, lethal, reticent, 

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Characterization How the picture of the character painted.

How novelists develop characters.

1. Narrator tells us

2. What the character says

3. What the character does--actions

4.  What other people say

5.  How others react to the character

Taylor Greer

What She is Like                       Specific Example Showing What She Is Like

1. Funny                                      1. "not one tree in the entire state of OK"(18)
                                                    2. 
                                                    3. "prissing around bedpans . . . like holiest substance on earth"(5)

Taylor Greer

What She is Like                       Specific Example Showing What She Is Like
Come up with 5 categories (you may pick my 5) that show what kind of person she is
And a total of 10 examples  for all of them combined (3, 2, 2, 1,2)

1. Funny                                    1. "twerp who believed . . . manager . . . Emperor of the            Universe"(90)

        sarcastic                             2. "No I go to Kentucky every year for my license plates."(50)

                                                 3. "bedpans . . . like it was the holiest substance on . . . earth"(5)

          mocking                           4. " wet cat hair" (93) "I have no problem with small people"(93)

           smart alec                        5."I would have guessed seven or eight [toxins in a hot dog]"(94)

                                                  6. "is that your pet or your girlfriend" (30)

2. Confident/outspoken                 1. " I asked him.....giving the job to me "( 8)

                                                   2.

3. Curious                                    1. "Dying to know the name of the tire shop' (52)

4. Kind, selfless  Good person       1. 

5. Smart
    Wise                                        1.
6. Humble                                    1."please don't go out of your way we've put you out enough already."

LouAnn
Come up with 5 categories (you may pick my 5) that show what kind of person she is
And a total of 10 examples  for all of them combined (3, 2, 2, 1,2)

1. Insecure                                   

        passive

        cautious

        scared
        gullible

2. Caring
3. Sensitive
4. Believes in Family, religious
5. Has a big heart
       gets attached to things
6. Doesn't want to be a failure
7. Independent 

HOMEWORK: READ CHAPTER 7

Mattie
Come up with 2categories that show what kind of person she is
And a total of 4 examples  for all of them combined (3+1))




Where the Heart Is
Characterization Chart

What She is Like                       Specific Example Showing What She Is Like
Come up with 5 categories (you may pick my 5) that show what kind of person she is
And a total of 10 examples  for all of them combined (3, 2, 2, 1,2)
Novalee Nation
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                                                          2.
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