Project 10
- 2. Group Name Evelyn Cifuentes Jennifer Ariza Rafael Leyva Orlen Morales
- 3. William was born in 1907 in Brooklyn in New York City to Polish-Jewish immigrants from Austria. As a child, he dabbled in painting and was an avid reader of literature. In his 60s, he decided to try his hand at another artistic endeavor, and in 1968 wrote his first children's book. He excelled here as well, and his third book, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble which was in the year 1970.He went on to write more than thirty children's books, including famously the Doctor De Soto series, continuing to write into his 90s. Among his other well-known works, the picture book Shrek! in 1990 which made a movie from the DreamWorks Animation film Shrek. At the age of 95, Steig died from natural causes on October 3, 2003.
- 4. Fortune the change happening of fortunate events; luck Repulsive to tell of beforehand; to predict Amused grossly offensive, dirty Foretold causing repugnance or aversion; disgusting Afoul to occupy in a agreeable, pleasing or entertaining
- 5. Before Do you think Shrek is a good or bad guy? What do you think Shrek is? What do you think the book is going to be about looking at the cover of this book? During When he read the warning sign is he going inside the woods? Why are people afraid of Shrek? Do you think Shrek is going to find the princess? After Did you like the ending of the book? Do you think they will live happy, now that they are married? What was your favorite part of the book?
- 6. How are Shrek and the princess similar? A. They are both nice B. They are both ugly C. They both have the same qualities D. People like them and the are not afraid of them What caused Shrek to listen to the witch? A. He wanted to kill the princess B. He wanted to find the ugliest princess and marry her C. He walked away from the witch and went back home D. He wanted to find the donkey and marry it What is the main idea of this story? A. Shrek wanted to find the princess B. Shrek wanted to leave the swamp C. Shrek wanted to find the princess and marry her D. Shrek went to china B B C
- 7. Activity: Puppet Show Materials: 9 socks Stage Eyes goggles Brown bags Markers Procedure: We going to make the stage and sat it up. We going to get the socks and make the character with them with eyes goggle. We give brown bags to the children. Then we make the puppet show base on the book of shrek.
- 8. The skill lesson we worked on today was character development. One thing we understand better is that character development has help us a lot to understand how characters change from the beginning to the story to the end of the story. This skill will help me be a better reader because we found out how the characters act during and to the end of the story. We are going to remember how to use this skill by keeping it in my mind and using it when reading a story. One piece of advice we would give to someone working with this skills is to find any information they can and follow everything they ask you to do. In order to improve we will need to read the story and see the words that describes how the characters act and change during the story. One more thing we want you to know is that this skill help the character. Also, do not lose focus pay attention on your skill every time your working on it.
- 9. Character Map Actions: Shrek ate and moved on Wherever Shrek went, every living creature fled. He wandered on, wondering if he’d ever meet his princess. Feelings: Daze Happy Hungry Surprise Says: “ It was only a bad dream… a horrible dream!” “ What a lovely strench” “ Tell my fortune, madam, and I’ll let you have a few of my race lice” Appearance (Look): lumpy nose pointy head wicked eyes so livid red nose hairy look is scary
- 10. Background What it is? Characterization, also called character description, means bringing characters to life in writing. Character description is simply describing what the character is doing, saying, or thinking. They describe it so well it is as if you are the character your self. For example, in the story ‘Shrek’ they described how Shrek was a child and how he would breath fire.
- 11. Mr. Nehme Questions: How do you teach my skill in your class? What do you think is difficult about teaching your skill? What advice can you give us for our project? Responds: I teach character development through my instructions where I emphasize the importance of my lesson into real life. Different culture in class sometime s makes it difficult. Yet, at the end differences of opinion is ok. Need to be practices.
- 12. www.readwritethink.org www.artsedge.fennedy-center.org www.goodcharacter.com www.educationasis.com www.wikipedia.org Mr.Nehme