Character revision

• Engels
• Further Education (Key Stage 5)

Goals for today 

Sit in a group of 4 (your choice) 

Character recap 

Investigating a character and constructing a character revision documents to be shared with the class 

Complete and upload 

Taboo in groups of 4 

1. Divide players into two teams of two, with opposing team members sitting next to each other. One player describes a word while their partner guesses, avoiding forbidden words. The monitor from the opposing team sits beside them to watch for violations, managing the  one-minute timer.
   
2. One point for a correct guesses 
   
3. One minus points for violations 
   
4. You cannot name the work or any other characters, settings or identifying words for the work 
   

Characters 

1. Make two columns and write in each the main and supporting characters for each novel or play.

2. Make connections between the characters. 

3. Find events, quotes, character traits and character roles that are either similar or different. 

Character investigation 

Choose one character from the novels you are preparing.  Investigate their impact and importance in the novel or play. 

Physical Description: How does the  characters' appearances reflect their personalities or roles in the story? 

Background and History: What are the characters' backgrounds, and how do these influence their actions and motivations?

Personality Traits: What are the defining traits of your character? How do these traits affect their interactions with others?

Relationships: How does your character relate to other characters in the novel? What do these relationships reveal about them?

Development and Growth: How does your  character change over the course of the novel or play? What events or experiences contribute to their development?

Conflicts and Challenges: What internal and external conflicts does your character face? How do they respond to these challenges?

Themes and Symbols: How does your character embody the themes and symbols of the novel or play?

Collect these answers in a Word document. You will need share this. The name of your document is the character's name. 

Find, in the digital version of the novel or play, three pieces of evidence (or more), in the form of quotations, that illustrate some of your answers from the previous slide. Copy and paste this evidence into the word document containing your previous answers.

1. Pick a character from the other work that you feel can be compared and contrasted to your character. 
2. Make a Venn diagram on your Word document  illustrating the similarities and differences between the characters. 
3. Investigate the paper 2 question given using a word map (next slide)

Paper 2 question example: 

Considering two works you have studied, discuss how the reader’s/audience’s relationship with a character or characters evolves over the course of a work.

1. Using mindmup.com, choose an adjective that you feel is central to describing the  character you investigated at the beginning of the novel/play. Do the same for a second character. 
   
2. Construct a word map adding branches to your adjectives showing related words, events, quotes and plot points 
3. Choose two second adjectives that you feel describe your characters at the end of the novel/play.
4. Construct a second word map adding branches to your adjectives showing related words, events, quotes and plot points. 
5. Add your mind map to your Word document (screen shot)

Paper 2 question example: 

Considering two works you have studied, discuss how the reader’s/audience’s relationship with a character or characters evolves over the course of a work.

Character investigation 

Paper 2 question example: 

Considering two works you have studied, discuss how the reader’s/audience’s relationship with a character or characters evolves over the course of a work.

Construct a plan using the planning document in MB paper 2 files. 

Use the information you have collected in your word map.