1. Lesson 1: What do all stories have in common?
Short Story Unit

2. Do Now
Look at the picture of the cat. List three traits that describe the cat. Ex: energetic, red, brave

3. Aim:
You are now going to create character traits for the images I project
Look at the image and then list 5 character traits in a bubble chart format
Character
characteristic

4. Why are we learning this?
One thing all stories have in common are…

5. CHARACTERS!

6. Every story has at least one character.
To help us become better readers we must be able to identify character traits as we read using the clues in the text.

14. WRITING TIME!
pick 1 character and 1 character trait of that character
and write a paragraph that gives us three reasons why you selected this one character trait.
The character in my picture is ___________(write one character trait)
First of all, _________________________ (1st reason why you chose that character trait.
Secondly, ____________________________ (2nd reason why you chose that character trait.)
Thirdly, ______________________________ (3rd reason why you chose that character trait)
These are the reasons why the character in my picture is ________(write down the character trait)

15. Homework: Create a character
Character must have five distinguishable traits
You may write, draw, or create a character using a computer program