Week 3 4.18-4.22.11

Week 3 RR? - Understanding my character(s)

(Be sure to include quote and page number!!)

You must use at LEAST 2 quotes from the book.

Understanding your character is a good way for you to really get into your book and see from another person's perspective. In your response this week, describe your character. Think about and discuss:

-1. your main character's personality

- 2. how they act/behave

- 3. what they look like

- 4. how old they are

- 5 what sort of education do you think that they have

- 6 who their friends and family are

- 7 what their financial (money) situation is

-8 and what their job is (if they have one).

       I am still reading Whirligig by Paul Fleischman. My main character is very curious about what she is doing and she loyal and funny. I know this because her friend Alexandra describes Stephanie (main character) when they were going to a motorboat waiting in a cove. On page 19 it says, “Would you mind telling me where we're going?” Stephanie is asking Alexandra in a curious way. She describe herself as a tall girl with a long brown hair.(I am 5'3 and I assumed I'm the tallest one in my class) “I'm only five foot four...”on page 32. When I was reading the book, Alexandra was telling Stephanie that they are both 8^th grader and they probably 14 to 13 years old (I know must of the people in 8^th grade are 14 to 13 years old including me.)But they don't mention the school and I know she goes to school.“First, we're 8^th grade,we're in biological primes”, it says on pg.20. I have no idea what her financial situation is because we haven’t met her mom and dad. She didn't even mention her family.