Recently, the class started working through the novel "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" by Judy Blume. All year we have been practicing the different book club jobs that help us study all the different literary elements of a story. With "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" we were able to divide into small groups and work independently on the different jobs. One job each of the students had to work on was the "Character Sketcher". With the Character Sketcher job, students must be able to describe character traits of a particular character. The first character we described was Fudge. I thought it would be fun if each student created a "Brother for Sale" poster. On the poster they had to pretend that Fudge was their brother and they wanted to sell him. They had to write at least one sentence describing Fudge's negative character traits that made them want to sell Fudge. But then they had to presuade you to WANT to buy Fudge by writing one sentence describing his positive character traits. The class had fun brainstorming ideas and creating their poster. One of the best descriptions of Fudge that one student came up with was "Talented at being naughty". So clever! Here are a couple of pictures of their posters (sorry, they are all turned the wrong way! Oops!).
