You're such a character!

Today we'll start our exploration of the concept of characterization - and we'll do it with a creative activity!

Start by brainstorming a list of your favorite characters from movies, books, legends - whatever.

Choose one to work with today.

Then, head over to Google and sign in.

Go to "documents" or "drive" - listed in the toolbar on the top of the page.

On the left hand side of the page, click "create" and pull down to "presentation."

You will be creating a power-point style presentation about your chosen character.  The functions here are all pretty straightforward - the toolbar will help you create your slides.

Start browsing the internet - you are looking for quotations and pictures associated with your character to use in your slideshow.

Part of the fun here is to choose pictures that reveal aspects of your character without specifically showing or naming her/him.  The same goes for quotations.  Choose things they said, or were said about them, but try to avoid making it too obvious.

The idea is we'll all view these presentations and try to guess who the character is, based on the quotations (language) and images you assemble.

So, when you are done (10 or so slides?) you will "share" your document.  How?  On the upper right-hand corner you'll see a "share" button - click it.  The default setting is "private" - click on that and change it to "anyone who has this link."  Then, copy the URL at the top of the window and paste it into an e-mail to me.

I'll collect all of these, post them onto the blog, and we'll all be able to check them all out.

Enjoy!