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CURRENT UNIT FOCUS:

• Creative Writing - A Mystery! 

Wed, May 2

Due: n/a

Hmwk: Take your list of physical characteristics from class and develop a paragraph of pure description

Today: Descriptive details

Everyone's mystery story will include a protagonist - a main character. That protagonist is the figure who will search out the answer to the story's main question.

An effective character is developed through descriptive writing in two areas:

• physical characteristics
• personality and behavior

Today's focus is on physical characteristics

1. Each person in class gives one small physical characteristic of a character we are developing together
2. Teacher records each characteristic, resulting in a list
3. Teacher then models how to use the physical characteristics to creat a paragraph of pure descriptive writing

Students then use the procedure as a model to make a list of characteristics for their own protagonist. Homework will be writing a paragraph that incorporates all of the details from the list!