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Based on Booktrust's "Everybody Writes: Games to create characters for Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 by Rachel Barnett. http://fileserver.booktrust.org.uk/usr/resources/528/rachelbarnett.pdf

Creating a Character:

Use Your Lists:

Quick Lists:

-Draw 3 random numbers (1-10) from the hat. Keep them in the order you selected them

The First number you drew:

-Use this many items from your Refrigerator list

The Second number you drew:

-Use this many items from your Small Items list.

The Third number you drew:

-Use this many items from your Expensive Items list

As quickly as you can, compile lists of 20 items for each of the following descriptors:

Um.... K. Now what?

20 Things

in a

refrigerator:

20 Small Items:

No Larger than the size of you fist.

20 Expensive Items:

A trip?

A plane?

A Country?

Build up a single character

from your selected items.

Your character is someone who:

-Has those items in their refrigerator

-Has the small items in their pocket, or purse (or both)

-Has the expensive items on their person (my, what a nice necklace you have) or perhaps on their credit card bill (my, what a nice tropical island you own!)

Develop a Past

Movement & Speech

Flesh Out Your Character:

Conflict & Memories:

How does your character:

Stand, sit or move?

Choose ONE item from the Small Item List:

Do they limp? Hunch their back? Sit straight? Roll their shoulders? Jiggle their leg??

This item is of particular importance to your character. Why?

Write about the last person your character had a fight with?

Why?

What makes your character sad/mad when they read the newspaper?

What is their earliest memory?

Happiest memory?

Saddest memory?

Memory they would most like to forget?

How does your character speak?

Do they talk fast? Slowly? Confidently? Nervously? Do they talk like the colour purple feels? Stutter? Spit when they talk? Have favourite phrases? An accent? What language do they speak?

develop A FUTURE:

Based on what you know about your character from the itmes they have thing about:

-Gender: Male? Female? Trans? GenderQueer?

Something else?

-How old are they?

-What do they do for a living?

-Where do they live? House? Castle? Underground?

Canada? Poland? District 12?

Choose one item from the Expensive Items list.

This item is something that your character hasn't told anyone else that they own.

Who, specifically, haven't they told, and why not?

WRITE!!

Share what you know about your charater with the group

What Does Your Character WANT?

Putting it together:

Write a story using

your new character

List FIVE things that your Character wants. Big, little... whatever. Things, experiences, dreams, jobs, aspirations.

How will they get these things?

What might prevent them from getting these things??

You're getting to know your charater now:

What does your character look like?

What do they wear?

Do they have any distinguishing features?

Pair off.

Tell your neighbor about your character.

Now, your neighbor is going to tell the group about your character.

WRITERS TAKE NOTE:

What was memorable about your character?

How did your character sound as described by someone else?

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