Lesson:
This was an unusual class. Some students apparently took the week off for spring break; one got called away during class because her brother broke his wrist. It left our class too small to continue on to the scheduled lesson for the second week in a row.
Since the remaining students like to write fiction, we spent the class period discussing how to write interesting characters.
Characters may be flat or round, and may be static or dynamic. Good lead characters are complex, multi-dimensional, realistic beings who change and grow during the course of the story.
Here is a concise discussion of basic character types:
Fictional Characters
Students who write fiction will benefit from How to Create a Character Profile
Assignment:
Regrettably, I could not assign any new work. I will expect the pending assignment to be done to a high standard, since students have had so much time to work on it.
I hope that we can still complete the main coursework I had planned for the rest of the year, which was a poetry unit, then a major research project. To do this, I may omit any additional literary analysis and in-class timed writing.
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