English 8 Mrs.
McDonald
Composition #2 Second Quarter Conferenced
Essay
Assignment: A one paragraph personality
sketch of a short story character.
Topic: Choose
one of the characters listed below. Brainstorm some personality
traits (using adjectives not nouns) which you believe your
chosen
character possesses. Be sure that you can support the
personality trait
through something you read about the character in the story.
Kass (from “Mary”) Mrs.
Flowers (from “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”)
Crescent (from “Then He Goes Free”) Carol (from “Louisa, Please
Come Home”)
TOPIC SENTENCE EXAMPLE:
In the short story entitled “Louisa, Please Come Home” by
Shirley
Jackson, it is evident that Paul’s personality trait of dishonesty leads to Louisa’s
rejection by her family.
Due Date: Rough
draft (A) Monday, 22 October; (B) Tuesday,
23 October
Final Original Friday, 26 October 2007 by All by Break
Skill/Concept
Stressed: The
ability to describe a character in terms of a personality trait and
how that trait is shown through something that occurs in the
story.
Requirements: 1.Original
title. The same rule applies as for your proceeding
essays. DO NOT
use the title of the story or the name of the
character.
Catch the reader’s attention & use your imagination.
2.Write a well-developed one paragraph essay describing your
chosen
character
in terms of her personality trait and how it relates directly
to some
event in the story.
3.DO NOT USE contractions or to be verbs.
4.DO USE present tense, third person, correct heading, and
correct
spelling, punctuation, sentence
structure and vocabulary
5.Type or word process the final copy of your original using
the MLA
style.
6.Double space heading and essay.
7.Essay will be worth 100 points.
8.Essays will be conferenced and
revisions will be worth 100 points.