Student Activity 2

Character traits:  In this activity you will choose your favorite character from the book and analyze the traits of this character and how you connected with this character by creating a trait flip book.

 

What you’ll need:  Copy of Common Character Traits sheet, 2 sheets of 8 ½ x 11” white construction paper, scissors, stapler, markers or colored pencils.

Steps:

1. Choose a character from your reading and pick three traits (use the Common Traits sheet for ideas) that the character displayed in the story.
2. Take two sheets of white construction paper and fold them in half lengthwise.  Crease them well at the top and put three staples across the top.  You will now have four pages.
3. You now need to cut the second, third and fourth pages into thirds about a ¼ inch from the top of you flip book.  You will now have three equal squares to your book.
4. The cover of the flipbook must include the title of the book, the author, the character’s name + Trait Flip Book.  (Ex. Moose’s Trait Flip Book”)
5. The second page will display each of the three traits you chose in each square.
6. The third page you will draw the character displaying these traits and you will show support for this trait by using an example from the story. 
7. The last page will be a drawing of you and a description of you following the same trait as the character from the book. 
    

Grading Criteria:

Trait flipbook is completed accurately according to directions given.	15 Points
Trait flipbook displays three traits that are related to character from thebook.	10 Points
Traits are supported with evidence from the story.	15 Points
Traits are connected to self well.	10 Points
Total	50 Points

                                                             

 

The jury took nine hours to  convict Capone on 5 counts of income tax evasion.

 

  

Common Character Traits

 

Active	Adventurous	Aimless	Ambitious	Artistic	Athletic	Awesome	Beautiful
Belligerent	Boisterous	Bold	Bony	Bossy	Bouncy	Brave	Cheerful
Clever	Compassionate	Conceited	Considerate	Cooperative	Courageous	Creative	Cruel
Curious	Dainty	Dangerous	Daring	Deceptive	Dedicated	Demanding	Depressed
Determined	Disagreeable	Distrusted	Dreamer	Dumb	Easy-going	Energetic	Entertaining
Evil	Excitable	Expert	Extravagant	Fancy	Fashionable	Fighter	Freakish
Friendly	Fun-loving	Funny	Furious	Generous	Gentle	Gigantic	Graceful
Handsome	Hard-working	Happy	Helpful	Heroic	Hilarious	Honest	Hostile
Humble	Immature	Impulsive	Independent	Informative	Intelligent	Inventive	Jealous
Jittery	Joyful	Jovial	Judgmental	Kicky	Kind	Know-it-all	Lazy
Leader	Light-hearted	Loud	Lovable	Loyal	Malicious	Mature	Mean
Meddling	Melancholy	Mellow	Messy	Merciless	Mischievous	Miser	Modest
Moody	Mysterious	Nasty	Naughty	Neat	Neglectful	Nice	Noisy
Nosy	Notorious	Novice	Nuisance	Nutty	Obedient	Objective	Observant
Odd	Offensive	Old-Fashioned	Open	Open-minded	Organized	Patriotic	Pitiful
Plain	Poor	Popular	Pretty	Proper	Proud	Prudent	Questioning
Quick	Quiet	Quirky	Realistic	Reasonable	Rebel	Reliable	Remorseful
Reserved	Respectful	Responsible	Rich	Rough	Rowdy	Sad	Self-confident
Selfish	Serious	Short	Shy	Silly	Simple	Sloppy	Smart
Strong	Studious	Successful	Tacky	Tall	Temper	Thoughtful	Timid
Tireless	Trustworthy	Thick-Headed	Ugly	Unbiased	Unethical	Unique	Upstanding
Vain	Vigilant	Villainess	Visionary	Violent	Vibrant	Vocal	Vulnerable
Warm	Wild	Witty	Wonderful	Yielding	Yucky	Zealous	Zestful