Unit 5

What Can We Learn from Realistic Fiction?

Activity

Developing the Main Character of Your Own Realistic Story

Develop the backstory of a character from the picture on pp. 96-97 of Literacy in Action 6B.



Open

Open Your File

Develop your own character from the story photo on pp. 96-97. 

Open your file Assignment 5-7 and complete it.

You previously saved this file in this format: jsmithla6_5-7-character-assignment in your Documents folder.

Now, think about the character who will be the narrator in your story.

Creating a back story (what happened to the character in the past that is not part of the current story) helps to develop the character's personality and "voice".


A writer’s voice or sound includes his or her dialogue: sentence structure, word choice, punctuation, and speech patterns. If you ever said something like “If Shane was here now, he’d say, ‘I gots to get me some grits!’ ”, you were referring to Shane’s “voice”.

Complete the Character Chart on Section 2 of your downloaded Assignment 5-7 worksheet to develop the backstory of your character.

Save

How to save a file:

  1. When you are finished, save the scrapbook to your computer.
  2. Name your Assignment 5-7 in this format: jsmithla6_5-7-character-assignment and save the file to your Documents folder.

Summative Assessment

Throughout the unit, you learned and practiced new concepts and presentation formats. Now it’s time to demonstrate or “sum up” your understanding of that information by submitting this assignment for a mark.


  1. Submit your Assignment 5-7 worksheet, along with your playlist or scrapbook, to the appropriate submission folder for marking.
  2. Click Add Submission to upload your document.
Submit your completed Assignment 5-7 on the next page.