Wow! Another week has rolled by! Can you believe it? We are officially in fall now, one of my favorite seasons! I love the crisp fall air and all the beautiful changing colors of the leaves that will be turning soon. I also love the fall holidays - Halloween and Thanksgiving. It also seems like I have more time to read in the evenings when the days become shorter. Speaking of my reading... I finished Water for Elephants last week, and right at the moment, it is my newest favorite book! I started a new book titled Christmas Jars by Jason F. Wright. Mr. Wright is a local author, by the way, living in Woodstock. Last year our school reading group read The Wednesday Letters also written by him.
Now, getting to our topic of discussion for this week...
Virtually all authors physically describe their characters so that readers can form pictures of the characters in their minds. This is important! Readers want to be able to bring the characters that they're reading about to life! So this week I want you to tell me what you're reading and give me some examples of how the author describes the main character in your book so that you can see him or her in your mind. For example...
In Christmas Jars here is how Hope Jensen is described early in the book. I could easily picture her - how about you?
"Hope grew into a striking-looking young woman. Through the years, her once-baby blue eyes had added a rich green at their edges. 'Those aren't eyes,' Louis told her, 'they're jewels.' Her often-pony-tailed hair was darker than most would have expected for such light eyes and fair skin."
Take a moment now and give me some examples of good character description from your book!
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So cool to see you're reading Christmas Jars. Hope the class likes it :)
In my book face on the milk carton janie has curly red hair and brown eyes but she wants to be like her best friend Sarah who has blonde hair very tan and baby blue eyes.
In the book la linea i could easily picture papa.l liked the fainted scent of his hair oil,the clove gum he chewed to cover up the cigarettes he smoked behind my mother's back.I liked the slow,careful way he prounouced each word, and how his mustache curved up when he read a line he enjoyed.
Count Olaf is a villian in my book, A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Grim Grotto, he has one long eybrow and an evil eye on his ankle.
In my book a ''SERIES OF UNFOTUNATE EVENTS'' THE VILE VILLAGE. Violate has blond long hair. She also has really light blue eyes.They say that they are see through.
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tom is 11years old dark brown heir and glowing green eyes.
In the book clementine she has short curly blonde hair. .Clementine wants to be like Margaret because she has braslets and she wants them to.She also cut all of her hair off because what she did to maragets hair.
In Punished there is an old man dressed as a school teacher. he had a jacket but no tie.
In my book A Dogs Life Bone is a stray dog he is black with white spots.Daisy is also a stray she has scruffy brown hair.
In my book ERUPS Mrs. Tuttle is different ,she wears purple ,she has yellow hair ,green high top shoes ,and hates pink a lot.
My book is about macbet... macbet has blond hair and brown eyes his face is smooth macbet is vary fit
The book Im reading is Trouble Times Two. Frank and Joe are the main characters in this book. The first person im going to talk about is Joe. Joe is six foot one. He has brown eyes. He loves sports. Next im going to talk about Frank. Frank has blue eyes. He is six foot two. He loves sports to. Frank and Joe are furternal twins.
in my book shades of gray will page is a 12 year old boy that has lost all of his famialy in the civil war.he loves school and also loves to read too. uncle jed is a tall, muscular, stong man. meg is young, cherfull girl
In my book Nature's Mysteries the Kraken is an enormous giant octopus &
Bigfoot is like a 7-10 foot gorilla!
In the book Patrick Ewing Patrick is 7'2 tall, was African American, had long legs and arms, and had short black hair.
Aqumarine is a mermaid,she as long dirty blond hair.She as a long blue/purple tail,she likes a human and his name his Raymond.She now has two friends, Haily and Claire.
In my my book The Lost Boy David's mother is described when she drinks,"I saw her eyes i was locked to them when she gets mad at me i see that her eyes get mad and furious i know she hates me." Davids mother has abusise him for many years, she is an alcholic. David is described by his holey shoes and raggy clothes, he is only nine years old.
In my book The Lost Boy. David we is nine years old and we wear holey shoes and,old clothes.
Aunt Mary is a foster mom with 7 childern, strikt elderly womon
Captain Underpants wears nothing but underwear and a towel for a cape. =)
In my book Grace is the main character and she is quite a girl. She is 12 years old, she has brown hair, and brown eyes. In school she can't sit still expecially when she is readind out loud!!!!!!!!!!
In the book clementine the author discribes margaret with her hair half way down her back.She has braces on her teeth.And she has redish oranges hair.
I am reading captain underpants.The athour said George wears ties a lot and haves a flat top and said Harold has a bad hair cut and wears t shirts a lot.
In my book Wingmill Windup,their is a girl named Sara. She is nice to he her frends and others. She has brown hair and brown eyes. She also has mighty big ears! Jullen is the opisent of sara she is clean and pickey. She is 15 years old and has 1 sister. She has blue hair.
The book i am reading is Telling Christina Goodbye the character Christina has blue eyes and blond hair.
In the book La linea their is two 3 year olds that are twins named Liliana and Maria. They have the identical grins,deep dimples on each cheek, nose crinkled up the same way and their faces were framed by their curly black hair!
In my book Shane,Shane is all ways wearing a black cowboy hat,he has two guns on the side of his hip, has black hair, and is white. joe has brown hair, brown cowboy hat,green eyes, and wears blue jeans all the time.
The person i'm going to talk about is Kathleen and in the book she has short curly hair and the most beautiful brown eyes that you could ever see and some really cute freckles.
My book is called Matilda. Miss. Honeys mouth dropped her eyes wide open you could see white all around
dennie has blue eyes brown hair and blond streacks and a modle kind oo face
In Iron Horses the train engine is long and black. It has many different features. It huffs and puffs.
manny always smiled he was a head smaller than michael did not smile when he got struk out.
In my book Once upon a mairiegold they find a littol boy. He is dressd in purrple velvet paints and shirt he has dark brown eys and choclet brown hair.
In the book Black Duck I could picture the dead guys body.His hand had a fancy gold wristwatch,wedding band and neatly clipped fingernails. He had a bloated face he color of slate,sightless eyes,eyes open and a hole in his neck.
in my book chocolate fever Henery i think has brown hair and bluesh greenish eyes.henery likes to eat chocolate and eats it with every meal he has exspecaly snacks.he even drinks chocolate milk with every meeal he has.
Janie has pierced ears so does her friend Pamela.Her dad can play the piano.Her family is dating and she is the only one who isn't.But that doesn't bother her.She is adventurous and sometimes wants to be like her friends.
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