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Reading Skills
- Analyzing cause and effect
- Summarizing
- Making generalizations
- Making inferences
- Making connections
Overview of the "Positive
Profile" Strategy
Throughout a novel, a character's
personality evolves. The purpose of this exercise is
to create a positive profile of a particular character
by gathering information about the character, evaluating
and synthesizing the information, and creating a positive
written impression of him/her.
Activity for the "Positive
Profile" Strategy
- Have students choose from the novel one character
whose attributes can be highlighted in a positive
manner.
- Ask the students to create a diary of information
about their character, including information about
the character's nickname(s), strengths, hobbies, and
actions.
- Have the students use the information from the diary
to create a positive profile of the character, ending
with a positive statement about him/her.
Assessment
The students should be assessed on
how well they have profiled their character - how complete
their gathered information is and how well they have
assessed this information to create a complete and accurate
profile.
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Directions
Create a positive profile for a character
in the novel. Choose either Eugene, Lou, Louisa, Jack,
Amanda, Diamond, Cotton, Oz, or Billy.
Complete name:
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Nickname:
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Strengths:
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Hobbies:
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Smartest action performed:
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Questionable actions:
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Positive statement about the character:
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