Choose a selection and work with a partner to role play a scene from the story. Read the selection carefully first to fully understand it. Prepare a script for a dialogue that you imagine the two characters might have. Choose a character in one of the selections and draw a picture showing what you think the character looks like. Explain why you chose to depict them the way you did.
Personification is the giving of human qualities to an animal, object or idea.
Make a chart showing the personification used in several selections and how it is used. Choose a story that you are familiar with. Write down the main points of the story. As a group, you will take turns telling a part of the story. Slow down and speed up as appropriate Practice 7.