September 26

JOURNAL TOPIC: ["Just the Way You Are" by Billy Joel; "Just the Way You Are" performed by Diana Krall]

The French novelist Jean Baptiste Alphonse Karr wrote (in French), "The more things change the more they stay the same." Evaluate this idea in terms of a character you've recently read or written. To what extent does the character's transformation involve new traits/information, and to what extent does the process magnify qualities that were there all along? Apply this thinking to a person you know in real life; how has this person changed as a result of his/her learning? Do you think the change is a product of qualities that were there all along or do you see something new?

AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Recap of characterization (talking mostly to you, period 3)
3. Characterization & literary elements
4. Where you and your characters have been and where you're going

HW:
1. vocab vocab vocab
2. In a blog post entitled CHARACTER STUDY (III), invite your three East/West characters on the journey-- and get started by describing the meet-up and departure. 

By popular demand, I'm including the 2nd East/West Bowl roster in case you need more characters: