Characterization Mini Book

“The Treasure of Lemon Brown”

MAJOR GRADE: Pick a character from “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” to analyze. You will be creating an eight page “mini-book” to show what you’ve learned about this character. After reading the storycompletely and carefully, these are the things you need to include in your mini book to prove that you can apply the reading skills we have been learning in class:

Page 1: Cover (Include the title and author of story, as well as your name and some kind of illustration.)*Make it look NEAT!

Page 2: Character traitsList five (5) character traits that best fit the character you chose. Rank the traits with the strongest being #1 and the weakest being #5.

Page 3: Feelings Write a piece of text evidence from the story which best shows a feeling of the character. Write the text evidence in quotation marks, and write the page number where it can be found.

Page 4:ActionsWrite a piece of text evidence from the story which shows an important action of the character. Write the text evidence in quotation marks, and write the page number where it can be found.

Page 5: Actions Explain why the action on page #4 is important to the plot of the story. Be specific and use complete sentences!

Page 6:Speech Write a piece of text evidence from the story which shows an important piece of dialogue from the character. Write the text evidence in quotation marks, and write the page number where it can be found.

Page 7:Speech Explain why the dialogue on page #6 is important to the plot of the story. Be specific and use complete sentences!

Page 8:FOR GREG: ThoughtsWrite a piece of text evidence from the story which shows an important thought of Greg’s. Write the text evidence in quotation marks, and write the page number where it can be found. Write one sentence about what this reveals about Greg.

Page 8:FOR LEMON: SpeechWrite a piece of text evidence from the story which shows another important piece of dialogue from Lemon Brown. Write the text evidence in quotation marks, and write the page number where it can be found. Write one sentence about what this reveals about Lemon.