Character Traits & Compare-Contrast

1. Character Traits & Compare-Contrast

2. Word parts: E, Ex (out of, former) • Vocabulary word: Exterior – being on the outer side; the outer side • The house's exterior walls badly need to be painted. • Word Parts: in, ill, ir, im (In, not) • Vocabulary Word: Irreverent — not respectful or reverent • He has a delightfullyirreverent sense of humor. Morphological Magic

3. Writers can use actions, dialogue, thoughts and narrative description to describe what a character is like at a particular moment or what a character is like more generally. • A character trait is a description of what a character is like more generally. Character traits are fixed or permanent things. Character Traits

4. Demanding • Dependable • Humorous • Ignorant • Imaginative • Impatient • Rude • Selfish • Serious • Green • Furry • Helpful • Honest • Fearless • Proud • Curious • Unfriendly • Childish • Cruel • Trustworthy • Tall • Funny • Brainy Sample Character Traits

5. For example, you might be angry for a couple of hours, but you probably aren’t angry all the time. However, few people are caring only for a few hours. A caring person ALWAYS tries to help others. • So when you are trying to find a character’s traits, you need to be looking for things that are more fixed/permanent than emotions or physical feelings like being tired or hungry. • Feelings, whether physical feelings or mental (emotional) feelings are not character traits! • In other words, Emotions and physical feelings are not character traits. Character Traits (cont.)

6. Things Ideas Tim Honda Civic Golden Retriever Blue Macintosh Apple Baby Carrot iPod Air Jordans • Love • Color • Dog • Truth • Justice • Girl • Fruit • Produce • Bravery • Trust • Faith Sample list of things and ideas

7. Compare Contrast • You look for sameness • You look for differentness Compare & Contrast

8. Same Same Same Same

9. Different Different Different Different

10. Similar & Different

11. Similar & Different

12. Step 1: Find thing or idea number one, Find thing or idea number two • Step 2: Look for similarities between thing or idea number one and thing or idea number two • Step 3: Look for differences between thing or idea number one and thing or idea number two Comparing & Contrasting

13. “The group lead is just a few steps away. Terence knows he can’t outmuscle Arjay, But if there’s one thing the streets of Chicago taught him, it’s how to fight dirty. He launches himself at the much larger boy. Driving his head with crushing force Into Arjay’s chin. The impact sends Arjay sprawling backward right into Healy, Knocking him up and over the rail. With a cry of shock, the group lead plunges Three stories into the garbage cans below.” Step 1: Find thing or idea number one, Find thing or idea number two } • Idea or thing number one: fighting • Idea or thing number two: helping • Idea or thing number one: Arjay • Idea or thing number two: Terence A few possibilities • Idea or thing number one: Healy before he fell • Idea or thing number two: Healy after he fell

14. Your Turn “At the curb, Terence is working with a flathead screwdriver on the lock of an old Toyota Camry, jamming and twisting vigorously. For all the stolen vehicles Gecko Has driven for Reuben and company, this is the first time he has ever witnessed The procedure first hand. He is amazed at how quickly Terence is inside the car, Prying open the steering column with a flathead. Still, it can’t be fast enough for Gecko Not under the circumstances.” Step 1: Find thing or idea number one, Find thing or idea number two

15. Step 2: Look for similarities between thing or idea number one and thing or idea number two • Idea or thing number one: Healy before he fell • Idea or thing number two: Healy after he fell Breathing, young, five-foot nine, the boy’s legal guardian, etc.,

16. Your Turn Step 2: Look for similarities between thing or idea number one and thing or idea number two

17. Step 3: Look for differences between thing or idea number one and thing or idea number two • Idea or thing number one: Healy before he fell • Idea or thing number two: Healy after he fell • Lively, helpful, dependable VS. Unconscious, useless, motionless

18. Your Turn Step 3: Look for differences between thing or idea number one and thing or idea number two