ENGLISH 9

TASK 1
CHARACTER MAP
Students will choose a seatmate and describe him or her by completing the character map.

TASK 2

Put a check mark if you agree with the statement; cross mark if you disagree.

1. Theater is the same as theatre.

2. Drama is different from a play.
3. A script is written conversation in a play.
4. A change in time is one scene in a play.
5. A one-act play has all the elements of drama.

TASK 3
Guess the words hidden in the constellation of letters. Use the description as a clue.

Place where the story happened

Platform on which the actors perform

People involved in the story

Words/lines the characters say in a story,movie, play, etc.

TASK 3
Identifying Characters through Characterization

Passage What it reveals Direct /

about the Indirect / Both
character
1. Squeaky was a skinny girl with a squeaky voice –which, of course, is how she
got her nickname.
2. Tabitha could see the new girl struggling to find her way to her next class.
Remembering what it felt like to be the new kid, she went back, extended her
hand to the girl and said, “Hi, I’m Tabitha. Need some help?”
3. Aaron leaped from the plane without so much as a moment’s hesitation.
Although he was extremely fit, it was more difficult than he had expected to
hold his arms at his sides and arch his body into a steep glide. Skydiving was as
exciting as he had hoped.
4. “There’s no way I’m letting him beat me,” thought Andrea, and she willed her
legs to move faster still toward the finish line that seemed a million miles away.
5. Owen looked around to see if anyone was coming, then quietly took the girl’s
cell phone from her open purse and slipped it into his own pocket.