Work through the list without notes. If you cannot do a statement, follow its link, then come back. Guide = study guide; Practice = practice questions.
Understanding
- I can name description, dialogue and behaviour as the three main ways a text reveals a character. (Guide: “Characters are built from details”)
- I can explain the difference between a character’s perspective and their motive. (Guide: “Characters are built from details”; Practice question 9)
- I can explain why a description from another character reveals that character’s perspective as well as the person described. (Guide: “Whose view is this description?”; Practice question 6)
- I can explain why a character’s view is not the same as the author’s. (Guide: “Common misconceptions”)
Skills
- I can list specific details from a passage and group them by what they suggest. (Guide: Worked example 2)
- I can use the detail, inference, perspective chain to build a claim. (Guide: “The detail, inference, perspective chain”; Practice questions 1 and 2)
- I can read an action or habit, such as counting or avoiding a clock, as evidence of an attitude. (Guide: Worked example 2; Practice question 3)
- I can tell which character, or the narrator, is the source of a description. (Guide: Worked example 1; Practice question 6)
- I can write a two- or three-sentence claim about a character with two supporting details. (Practice question 8)
Reasoning
- I can choose the claim best supported by all the details in a passage and reject claims that go beyond it. (Practice question 7)
- I can explain how a character’s perspective changes after a moment of recognition. (Practice questions 4 and 9)
- I can say when a text allows two readings of a motive and which one the details favour. (Guide: Worked example 2, Step 4)
All ticked? Move on to the Topic 1.2 study guide, Setting: details that convey a time and place, or return to the revision notes.