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Instructions: Write what you learned from the characters’ thoughts, words, and actions on each of the pages
listed.

Character Analysis

Talking To Each oThEr • lEvEl x • 1

Thoughts Words Actions
1. “Are you getting a 1. Divorce 1. Amanda asked.
Amanda divorce?” Amanda 2.
2. Like
asked.
Pg. 6–8 2. “I like Chris. I like 3. Wedding
having him around,” 4. Grownup
Amanda said. 5. Talk
3. Amanda felt bad 6. report
about having thought
that her mother
talked too much.
4. He was fun, and even
though he and Mom
were never married, it
still hurt like a divorce
when he left.

1. “I guess he was sort of 1. Fun 1. Amanda kneeled down next to

more fun,” Amanda said 2. Alike the disassembled screen.
Pg. 12–13 2. “But Chris and I are more 2. “I’m going to get an ice pop,”
3. Understand Amanda said, without even
alike. We understand 4. Grumpy
each other.” bothering to offer Cameron one.
5. Fort
3. Amanda found that she
liked watching Chris fix 6. Finished
the TV almost as much as 7. Fixing
she had liked watching 8. broken
TV.
4. She knew he was talking
about the fort.

Pg. 18–19

Pg. 21

Chris
Pg. 5
 Pg. 13

Pg. 18–19

SKILL: CHARACTER ANALYSIS

Amanda’s
mother

Pg. 6–8

Pg. 15

Pg. 24

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