Create your own Character Chemistry page using what you've learned. See how many interesting characters you can come up with, then pick your favorite.

Deliverable

Post a written description of your favorite character for the class, using words that are not VISUALLY descriptive.

Remember, when your book is illustrated, the pictures will show the details, so show us (using words) what the pictures can’t!

For example:

Wrong:

Alfred is a long-legged monkey from Hawaii. He’s wearing a Hawaiian print shirt and roller skates, and he’s carrying a fish bowl.

Right:

Alfred loved to wear bright, tropical colors that reminded him of home. As he skated through the neighborhood, he carried his best friend, Bubbles. Bubbles went everywhere with Alfred, no matter what.

Do you see what a big difference there is between these two descriptions? The first one tells us everything that we will see in the illustration, so it really doesn’t tell us anything that we don’t already VISUALLY know.

The second description let’s the illustration do it’s work, while telling us the following things that we would not know by looking at the illustration alone:

A: Alfred loves to where things that remind him of the home that he misses.

B: The scene is his NEW neighborhood.

C: Bubbles, the goldfish, is his best friend.

D: They are inseparable.

Amanda Isabel Durango Michailos

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