1. English Amped Opening Inquiry Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Instructions (5 min.):
Put a heading on a paper in your Literary Analysis. Write down a response to these question:
Who are you as a person and as a student? Describe your own characteristics.
Supplies: laptops,

2. This Week in English Amped:
Today’s Agenda
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Opening Inquiry
Objectives & Meeting
Mini lesson on setting
Book clubs
Reading
Reflection
Announcements:
Recruiting 2/8/17
RATE writing due before you read:
Johné
Jermaine
Mana
Collie
Tyshaunna
Mya
Be the change you want to see!
Objectives:
Identify and analyze how authors define their characters
Apply understanding of characterization to analysis of book club novels
This Week in English Amped:
Tuesday: Book Clubs
Wednesday: Prep for Recruiting
Thursday: Book Clubs
Friday: Music Appreciation, Restorative Justice circle or Workshop
Supplies: laptops,

3. Characterization
The definition of a character is based on implicit and explicit descriptions
Direct characterization – Explicit characterization in which character traits are clearly detailed by the narrator or other speaker
“Jane is a cruel person”
Indirect characterization – Implicit characterization in which readers deduce the traits of a character through analyzing their speech, thoughts, appearance, and response from other characters
“As Jane walked past the box labeled ‘Free Puppies,’ she glanced around her, then gave the box a swift kick.”

4. STEAL
Speech
What they say and how they say it
Thoughts
The emotions they feel and the beliefs they have
Effects on others
How others react to them and how others feel about them
Actions
Alone, with others, or during a stressful situation
Looks
The way they dress, their facial expressions, or their overall body language

5. Choose a character from your book to write a poem about.
**Think from the perspective of the character. Who are they? What would they would say.**
(Line 1) First name
(Line 2) Three or four adjectives that describe the person
(Line 3) Important relationship (daughter of...,mother of..., etc)
(Line 4) Three things, people, or ideas that the person loved
(Line 5) Three feelings the person experienced
(Line 6) Three fears the person experienced
(Line 7) Accomplishments (who composed..., discovered..., etc.)
(Line 8) Three things the person wanted to see happen or wanted to experience
(Line 9) His or her residence
(Line 10) Last name
Destiny
Loving, Caring, Kind
Daughter of Vanessa and Te-Cye
Who loves her students, coffee, and English
Who feels happy, sad, and excited
Who fears roaches, wasps, and heights
Who co-created English Amped
Who wants to travel, see her kids graduate, and write
Who lives in Prairieville
Cooper

6. ½ Book Club Sheets (20 minutes)
Limit your responses to the pages you read for today
Focus your discussion questions, significance and explanation responses, and illustrations on the characters in your novel’s narrative
Discuss your ideas as a group and use each of your different perspectives on the book to help answer each role
**YOU CANNOT BE THE SAME ROLE YOU WERE LAST WEEK

7. RATE/
Read!

8. Reflection Tuesday, January 31, 2017 What did we learn?
Objectives:
Identify and analyze how authors define their characters
Apply understanding of characterization to analysis of book club novels
Supplies: laptops,