The Characters in Westing Game

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6th Grade Language Arts The Westing Game Character Sketch Choose one character from The Westing Game who made an impression on you. Write a character sketch on that character describing both his or her personality and appearance. Use quotations from the book to support your descriptions. Be sure to note the page on which the quote was found. In addition, describe how the author developed and changed this character from the beginning to the end of this story. Include a hand drawn or computer generated picture of that character. Your essay and picture will be mounted onto construction paper provided by your teacher. You will use good spelling and grammar as you write your character sketch. Your essay will have five paragraphs. Your writing will be divided into the following sections: I. Introduction (1 paragraph) * Grabber statement * Thesis statement For example: [Character name] is the heir to the Westing fortune who is most impressive to me because he/she is [list two or more descriptive adjectives of their physical appearance and personality] and changed throughout the story by [explain how they changed from the beginning to the end of the story]. II. Physical and personality description of the character (1 paragraph) * Transition sentence stating the character’s physical and personality description * Include at least two excerpts/quotes from the book to support that description. For example: “Crow’s clothes were black; her skin, dead white. She looked severe. Rigid, in fact. Rigid and righteously severe” (11). “Even Crow was using Westing Disposable Diapers to polish the silver and Westing Paper Towels to scrub the floors …Poor Crow, she’s taking this game harder than he had expected. She’s been acting strange again” (83). * Write sentences explaining in your own words how each quote from the book supports

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