Name: ______________________
Per. ________
Date: ____________
Ms.Gonzalez’s Homework Packet
Week 7: Direct & Indirect Characterization, Point of View
Vocabulary Words
Direct Characterization
Indirect Characterization
First Person
Third Person Objective
Third Person Limited
Third Person Omniscient
Exercise A: Create Word Maps for all of your vocabulary & Spelling Words
Word Map pages should be stapled to this packet. There should be 6 maps total.
Exercise B: Direct to Indirect Characterization
EXAMPLES OF DIRECT AND INDIRECT CHARACTERIZATION
Direct: She was rich.
Indirect: She wore a ten carat diamond necklace everywhere she went.
Direct: Joe was having fun at the party.
Indirect: Joe couldn't believe it was already 2 in the morning, he didn't want to leave yet.
Rewrite each of the direct characterization examples as an indirect characterization.
Direct: He smells bad.
Indirect: _____________________________________________________________________________________
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Direct: Eva is clumsy.
Indirect: _____________________________________________________________________________________
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Direct: Terry doesn't like pets.
Indirect: _____________________________________________________________________________________
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Direct: Parker really cares about other people.
Indirect: _____________________________________________________________________________________
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Direct: Sonya is very smart.
Indirect: _____________________________________________________________________________________
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Exercise C: Indirect to Direct Characterization
Rewrite each of the indirect characterization examples as an direct characterization.
Indirect: The man's clothes were filthy, probably since he'd been sleeping on newspapers all night.
Direct: ______________________________________________________________________________________
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Indirect: Martha warned Toby, "She'll never know who broke the window unless somebody says something."
Direct: ______________________________________________________________________________________
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Indirect: Jorge's neighbor, Suzy, said, "Jorge is too smart to fall for such a dumb trick."
Direct: ______________________________________________________________________________________
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Indirect: When she heard her baby crying last night, she just gritted her teeth and turned up her iPod.
Direct: ______________________________________________________________________________________
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Indirect: Tim croaked, "I'll go start the car," and ran away because somebody tried to start a fight with his friend.
Direct: ______________________________________________________________________________________
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Exercise D: Identifying Point of View
Read the following passages and determine the narrative perspective, then explain how you were able to identify the
point of view- if the passage is third person, explain which character’s thoughts are revealed.
1. Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
Leslie sat in front of Paul. She had two long, brown pigtails that reached all the way down to her waist. Paul saw
those pigtails, and a terrible urge came over him. He wanted to pull a pigtail. He wanted to wrap his fist around
it, feel the hair between his fingers, and just yank. He thought it would be fun to tie the pigtails together, or
better yet, tie them to her chair. But most of all, he just wanted to pull one.
Narrative Perspective: _________________________________________________________________
If it is third-person, which character’s thoughts are revealed? __________________________________
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2. Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes
And we scrounged. Next to survival, scrounge was probably the most important word in our new vocabulary.
We found a store that was throwing out water-damaged mattresses. Getting them home was a problem, since we
had to make two trips, leaving Brad and Katie, armed with sticks to guard over the remained. I truly expected
them to be challenged by some gang boss, but they said that the only person who came by was a scrawny little
rat of a girl living alone. We let her have one of the mattresses.
Narrative Perspective: _________________________________________________________________
If it is third-person, which character’s thoughts are revealed? __________________________________
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