Characterization

Agenda• Game: Who am I?

• Communicator sleeves – Ambush

• Quiz

Objective• Practice using

characterization techniques

• Identify methods in a story

• Prove learning

What’s My Name!!!

• One team member stands with their back to the projector

• The rest of the team comes up with the five indirect characterization techniques to describe the character on screen

• You can not say the characters name or anything that your team did not come up with during group work

• Team member will try to guess the character on the screen

The Joker

Peter Griffin

Lebron James

Miley Cyrus

Group work

• Get into groups of four students• Use the “communicator sleeves” and dry erase

markers to mark the 5 different characterization techniques

How much did you learn?

1. Define characterization.2. Define Inference.3. What are direct and indirect

characterization?4. Name the five methods of characterization.5. Provide 5 examples from Ambush