Character Portrait 2: the sequel!

AO: LANGUAGE FEATURES-Use a range of language features appropriately, showing an increasing understanding of their effects.
INDICATORS:uses a range of oral, written, and visual features to create meaning and effect and to sustain interest & uses a range of vocabulary to communicate precise meaning

This term, our substantial writing topic is a character portrait. (I know! I know! We've done this before!) The difference is in the word substantial. Meaning its going to be a larger, a more considered, crafted piece of prose.

Choose a person who has had a powerful influence on your life one way or another: a person whom you have loved, respected, admired, been fascinated by or perhaps feared.

For example:
-a specially loved relative or neighbour
-a favourite teacher

Jot down the names of people who fit that list. Think about what you would need to include. Jot down what you need to remember. What can you find or recall that reminds you of that person?

Don’t choose a friend or a sibling, as you'll just get bogged down in the emotion. Perhaps complete this as a homework task and do some research at home. ask Mum, Dad, whoever, to help you. Click on the link below, make a copy and begin making a list of who it could be.
Character Intro

So that you have an idea of what the writing might look like, I have made a framework that will help you plan out your writing.

Character portrait framework
Describe-Planning Template

Mentor texts

WALT: Find the LITERACY of a Character Portrait
SC:Compare and contrast the Character Framework with Maurice Gee's work.

In the first book I picked up, A World around the Corner, By Maurice Gee I found this. How many of the things in the character portrait framework , does the author do?