HV2B - Writing assignment - 5 June 2024

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo t, havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 1

Today's Lesson

- Reading: Pinocchio Vampire Slayer
- Wordlist Quiz! 

- What is character development?

• Wants and Needs

• Strengths and Flaws

• Look and Behavior

- Character word web: The Small Black Cat

- Write a short character development story for "The Small Black Cat" (100 words)

Goal: I can come up with a character development story for the The Small Black Cat

Pinocchio

Vampire Slayer

Word List speaking test

What is Character Development?

A character develops (ontwikkeld zich) throughout a story. Those changes are called character development. Some key points bring about these developments:

• A character's wants: "I want to stay up all night, because it's fun"
  
• A character's needs: "I actually need to sleep, because I'm tired"
  
• A character's strengths: Qualities (nice, funny, smart, etc..) OR they have a super power (flying, super strength) OR, special skill (great at knife throwing)
  
• A character's weaknesses: Qualities (jealousy, mean, evil), OR they have a disability of some kind (can't walk), OR they stand out (not part of the crowd, different, etc...)
  
• A character's look: might start off with long hair, then it gets chopped off by an angry woodsman later on in the story, or they lose an eye, etc...
  
• A character's behavior: might start off as a mean character, but turns into a nicer character throughout the story
  

Character Development: Identify

1. What does the cat want?

2. What does the cat need?

3. What are its strengths?

4. What are its weaknesses?

5. What does it look like, and does it change?

6. What is the cat's behavior, and does it change?

Read the hand-out

Little Black Cat
wants, needs, strengths, weaknesses, looks, behavior

Character Development: Identify

1. What does the cat want?
A home, food, and a name

2. What does the cat need?
A home, food and a name

3. What are its strengths?
It's brave, and determined. Goes on despite the bad weather.

4. What are its weaknesses?
Angry, picky, and quite stuck-up, which makes it harder for it to find a home (It rejects two offers)

5. What does it look like, and does it change?
Black. It doesn't change.

6. What is the cat's behavior, and does it change?

The cat behaves very impolite to those who offer their help. That behavior doesn't change until it meets the owners it had in mind.

Read the hand-out

The Small Black Cat: Now You

THINK OF THE FOLLOWING:

• Small Black Cat's wants (stays the same): a home, food and a name
  
• Change the cat's needs:
  
• Change the cat's strengths:
  
• Change the cat's weaknesses:
  
• Change the cat's looks:
  
• Change the cat's behavior:
  
  Write your story. Is the ending still the same? is it different?
  

In the original the want and need of the cat are the same. In your re-write the want is the same but the need has to change. You change it! Also,

Make it silly if you want! 100 words

Grammar

Use:

• Past Simple (for narrative and dialogue): The cat bravely stood its ground.
  
• Present Perfect (for narrative and dialogue): He might have stayed shivering in the old barn.
  
• Present simple (for dialogue): "Who are you?"
  

Optional (if you know how to use it)

• Past perfect (for narrative and dialogue): If the small black cat had known it was Halloween..
  

The Little Black Cat
100 word story