Authorial Characterization in 'Movement'

​Character and Inference in 'Movement'

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​Guiding Assessment Questions:

​Upcoming Writing Assignment will involve:

1. How do the authors' choices around structure, characterization, and description help readers connect with a character who is atypical in many ways? 

2. How does recognizing a range of behavior help us internalize and accept the challenge of being different?​

​(Thursday: We will go over class-generated examples provided today)

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Learning Objective: Students will be able to identify, infer and explain how descriptive examples from the short story help the reader connect with a character who is ‘atypical’ in many ways.

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Language Objective: Students will be able to ask and answer questions about the text orally and in writing, using complete sentences.

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​‘Movement’: Character and Description

Mr. Phillipos/English II/October 25, 2022

Multiple Select

Inference, or inferring, is a literary technique in which the reader ______.

• works things out using clues in the text.

• 'reads between the lines' so as to gather insights not directly expressed in the text.

• goes beyond the surface details to see other meanings that the details suggest or imply.

• puts into practice what he or she does everyday in real life.

Multiple Select

Direct Characterization involves the writer

• making explicit statements about a character's personality.

• telling the reader or viewer what the character is like.

• revealing details about a character without stating them explicitly.

• showing character traits through his/her actions, speech, thoughts, appearance, and how other characters react to them.

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Indirect Characterization involves the writer

• making explicit statements about a character's personality.

• telling the reader or viewer what the character is like.

• revealing details about a character without stating them explicitly.

• showing character traits through his/her actions, speech, thoughts, appearance, and how other characters react to them.

​🍄Using the list to the right, your job will be to go back through the story, looking for specific examples in which the author extends Hannah's characterization as an 'atypical' character via 'indirect characterization.'

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🍄Form groups of 2-3 and find 3 examples in the text. Your group will need to cite the passage and be able to explain why you chose that particular example (i.e. what makes it 'indirect')

​Example:

​"I tighten my fingers around the twine handles of the sack to keep myself from spinning away into the stratosphere." --p.184 ('beneath my bed'-186)

In terms of Hannah's 'temporal autism,' where her imagination and senses can get 'carried away' by the world around her, this detail implies that, along with her dancing shoes, she likes the rough feel of everyday objects as they keep her (literally/figuratively) grounded. ​

Subject | Subject

Some text here about the topic of discussion

Open Ended

Hannah: "I do not want to live small. I do not want to be like everyone else, ignorant of the great rush of time, trapped in frantic racing sentences. I want something else, something I cannot find a word for" (191).

Do you identify with this feeling? If you 'do not want to be like everyone else,' what is that 'something else' you wish to be?

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​What is that 'something else'?

Poll

On a scale from 1 to 10, with 10 being you 'get her,' how much would you say you identify with a character like Hannah?

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• 8-10

Match

Exit Ticket: Match the following

• Conflict

• Exposition

• Direct characterization

• Indirect

  characterization

• Inference

The main problem the character encounters in the story.

The beginning of a story where we learn about setting and some of the characters.

the author tells the reader what a specific character is like.

Author reveals details through a character's actions, dialogue, or internal monologue.

Implied or non-explicit ways in which readers actively add meaning to a text.

• The main problem the character encounters in the story.

• The beginning of a story where we learn about setting and some of the characters.

• the author tells the reader what a specific character is like.

• Author reveals details through a character's actions, dialogue, or internal monologue.

• Implied or non-explicit ways in which readers actively add meaning to a text.