Character Sketch
Adopt a Character Assignments
1. Using the information from your Adopt a Character sheet, fill in the Bio Cube, cut it out, and cube it. The link for the Bio Cube is on my website under resources.
2. Using the information from the Adopt a Character sheet, write a detailed character sketch of your adopted character. This is a creative piece. Stretch your writing and your imagination! On my website, there is an example of a character sketch and there are directions on how to write a character sketch. Both of these are attached.
How to Write a Character Sketch
(Courtesy of the Northern Illinois University Writing Across the Curriculum Program)
When you write a character sketch, you are trying to introduce the reader to someone. You want the reader to have a strong mental image of the person, to know how the person talks, to know the person's characteristic ways of doing things, to know something about the person's value system. Character sketches only give snapshots of people; therefore, you should not try to write a history of the person.
A good way to write a character sketch is to tell a little story about one encounter you had with him or her. If you do that, you could describe a place briefly, hopefully a place that belongs to the person you are describing, focusing on things in the scene that are somehow representative of the person you are describing. Describe how the person is dressed. Then simply tell what happened as you spent time together. From time to time, describe the person's gestures or facial expressions. It is important to put words into the person's mouth in direct quotations.
As you work on this paper, you should decide what kind of emotional reaction you want the reader to have in relationship to this person. What kind of details can you select to create that emotional reaction? Avoid making broad characterizing statements; instead, let the details you give suggest general characteristics. Let the reader draw her
1. Using the information from your Adopt a Character sheet, fill in the Bio Cube, cut it out, and cube it. The link for the Bio Cube is on my website under resources.
2. Using the information from the Adopt a Character sheet, write a detailed character sketch of your adopted character. This is a creative piece. Stretch your writing and your imagination! On my website, there is an example of a character sketch and there are directions on how to write a character sketch. Both of these are attached.
How to Write a Character Sketch
(Courtesy of the Northern Illinois University Writing Across the Curriculum Program)
When you write a character sketch, you are trying to introduce the reader to someone. You want the reader to have a strong mental image of the person, to know how the person talks, to know the person's characteristic ways of doing things, to know something about the person's value system. Character sketches only give snapshots of people; therefore, you should not try to write a history of the person.
A good way to write a character sketch is to tell a little story about one encounter you had with him or her. If you do that, you could describe a place briefly, hopefully a place that belongs to the person you are describing, focusing on things in the scene that are somehow representative of the person you are describing. Describe how the person is dressed. Then simply tell what happened as you spent time together. From time to time, describe the person's gestures or facial expressions. It is important to put words into the person's mouth in direct quotations.
As you work on this paper, you should decide what kind of emotional reaction you want the reader to have in relationship to this person. What kind of details can you select to create that emotional reaction? Avoid making broad characterizing statements; instead, let the details you give suggest general characteristics. Let the reader draw her