7.1 Novel Character Assignment Options

Whose Phone is This?

In this assignment, you will choose one of the characters and complete the three steps to show what would be on this person’s cell phone. Be sure your answers are written in complete sentences.

Connect to the character not the plot events. Who they are now as a result of the events and conflict and what they learned along the way?

Provide a written rationale which includes details and explanations which answer How? and Why? each element connects to the character as they are after the end of the novel. Your rationale should be detailed and a minimum of 5 sentences.

• Document Links
  

Whose Phone is This? Template

        

PostSecret Postcard

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard. (www.postsecret.com)

For this option, you will create a series of 6 post-secret postcards for the main character in your chosen novel. Each postcard must reveal the secret that would relieve some of his or her pain if he or she got it off his or her chest. There should be a progression or development of character represented – how did the character change throughout the novel and how would the secrets change? Each postcard must also depict a visual that would be representative of the event or conflict taking place at that point in the novel.

Connect to the character not the plot events: Provide a detailed, written rationale which includes explanations which answer How? and Why? your postcards demonstrate the character’s development.

View the exemplar using characters from the short story, “The Spaces Between Stars.” Note: This exemplar has 1 postcard. You need a series of 6.