Navigating Narratives - Exploring Characters

1st Character	How they look and Personal Traits?	Evidence
Zach1	Skinny, blonde, Bushy hair, Angry and Sad	Our evidence is from the picture of him with his dad.

1st Character	What is your impression of them? Why?
Zach	Ofa - He’s rude and disrespectful. Fraidoon - He’s Offensive and Bad Mannered.

1st Character	What changes has the character gone through?	Evidence
Zach	At the start of the story Zach is feeling angry that he has to go to china. Throughout the story he gets more annoyed because his dad booked a flight without him knowing. At the airport his feeling becomes a bit happy because he gets $150 from his dad. When he gets to Chengdu he is upset because he lost his nintendo at the airport. He’s confused because he's in a place (hut) he doesn’t know.	We know this because in the text it says “I don’t want to go to stupid China”. We know this because it says  “Tickets have been bought, you are leaving in three days”. We know this because in the story it says “Dad hugged him and then opened his wallet and pulled out three fifty-dollar notes”. This is true because it says “He was still upset about the theft of his Nintendo” This is true because it says “seeing the room’s mud walls and simple wooden furniture, he wondered if he was in some other part of the museum.

1st Character	How did the author use vocabulary evidence to create your character’s personality?	Evidence
Zach	He’s Angry and upset.	We know he's angry because in the story he says to his day “I don’t want to go to stupid China”. We also know that he is sad because his Dad has already booked a flight to China and he was upset that he did not really have a choice.

2nd Character	How he looks like and his personal traits?	Evidence
Master Zhang	White Mustache, Long Shirt and baggy trousers Personality Traits -  Confused, kind and mad.	Our evidence is on the first page of chapter 4.

2nd Character	What is your impression of Master Zhang?
Master Zhang	Ofa - I think he’s a bit kind because he let Zack into his hut.
Master Zhang	Fraidon - I think he is angry because Zack was being rude to him and his culture.

2nd Character	How did the author use vocabulary evidence to create your character’s personality?	Evidence
Master Zhang	He’s  Confused	We know that he is confused because he does not know what Zach is saying asking them if they are being paid to dress up as the people from the Shu Kingdom.

2nd Character	What changes has the character gone through?	Evidence
Master Zhang	When he is introduced he is curious.	We know that he is curious because he is wanting to find out where Zach got the Jade stone from.

Compare the similarities and differences between both characters.

1. Similarities - They are both angry and confused.

2. Differences - Zach comes from America and Master Zhang comes from China. Zach is a child and Master Zhang is a grandfather.

The past previous weeks for Reading Mrs Anderson's reading group was focusing on their novel study activities. Their were different activities and Fraidon and I decided to explore the characters. Fradion and I read a book called the ninth dragon. We had to read the story and explore two characters. Our characters were Zach and Master Zhang.We had to answer questions about them like what they look like and their personality traits (eg - friendly, kind, horrible nasty). At the end we had to find the differences and the same things about the two characters. One of the differences I found out is that they both come from different countries. This story is abut a boy named Zach who goes to China. The problem is that he doesn't want to go to China but he doesn't have a choice. He says that China is stupid. When he gets to China he meets this man named Master Zhang. He is really confused and doesn't know where he is because he bumped his head. Then he thinks that he is in the Museum where his Mum works but that is not true. I think this book is interesting to read. I would recommend this book to 5-8 year old children.