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Internal and External Character Traits
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Internal vs. External
External: These are traits that you can see and use to describe what a character looks like.
Internal: These are traits that describe the way a character acts.
EX: alert, ambitious, bossy, lazy, jealous, smart, lucky, etc.
For Example...
For this example, we'll use the character of Harry Potter from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
Essential Questions
- What is a character trait?
- How are internal and external character traits different?
- How do character traits influence actions?
Character Trait
- When we talk about a character, we often describe that character in terms of character traits.
- Descriptive adjectives like happy or sad that tell us the specific qualities of the character.
- They're the same kinds of words that we might use to describe ourselves or others.
How do we FIND character traits?
What are traits?
- Take a couple of seconds to think about the main character in the book that you are currently reading.
- What types of traits do you believe your character has? (internal and external)
- How might our character's traits influence his/her actions in the story?
- The author may tell us these traits directly, but more often the author will show us these traits in action.
- Our job as readers is to draw a conclusion about the character's traits (to infer them) from what the character says, thinks, and does.
- We might infer a character trait from something a character does only once, or we might draw our conclusions from a series of things the character says and does.
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