This document discusses determining a character's motives from a story. It provides an example of the character Doris from a story and analyzes her traits and actions to infer her motives for going into a guitar shop. Doris' motives were to work in exchange for a new guitar for her father, as his had been ruined, and she wanted to make him happier again by restoring the music in their home. The document encourages analyzing characters' traits, thoughts, words and actions to understand their reasons for behaving as they do.

1. Chang and the Bamboo Flute Week 3

2. This Week’s Goal I recognize a character’s traits and actions to determine the character’s motives.

3. This Week’s Goal A character’s motivesare the reasons the character acts as they do in the story.

4. This Week’s Goal To help us find a character’s motives, think about: WHY did that person do what they did?

5. This Week’s Goal To find a character’s motives, think about the character’s: Traits Thoughts Words Actions

6. This Week’s Goal Sometimes we need to use clues in the story and our own knowledge to infer the character’s motives.

7. This Week’s Goal Let’s try one together: Remember, think about WHY did he or she do that?

8. This Week’s Goal Doris looked longingly at the guitar in the window of the music shop.

9. This Week’s Goal Her father’s guitar had been ruined in a fire.

10. This Week’s Goal Dad seemed sad without it. Doris missed the sound of Dad softly strumming the guitar in the evenings.

11. This Week’s Goal “I wonder if I can work for exchange for a guitar?” she thought.

12. This Week’s Goal Doris entered the shop and shyly asked to speak with the owner.

13. This Week’s Goal We need to find out her motives, or WHY Doris did these things. Let’s take a closer look at Doris to help us.

14. This Week’s Goal Doris’s Traits: She was shy She was thoughtful

15. This Week’s Goal Doris’s Actions: Went to the guitar shop Asked to speak with the guitar shop owner

16. This Week’s Goal Think about her motives for going into the shop. WHY did she go in? Be ready to share your answer.

17. This Week’s Goal Doris went into the shop to work for a new guitar for her dad.

18. This Week’s Goal Now, think about another motive Doris may have had for getting the guitar.

19. This Week’s Goal Other Motives Doris also enjoyed and missed the guitar songs She wanted to make her dad feel happier

20. This Week’s Vocabulary In order to better understand this week’s story, we need to learn some new words.

21. Pried To force something away from another

22. Desperately Wanting something very, very much

23. Sneered Showing with words or your face that you are upset at someone

24. Indignantly To show irritation because you feel you have been insulted or treated unfairly

25. Urgently Something that is important and must be done right away

26. Grudgingly To say or do something without really wanting to. Ugh! I did not want to do that!

27. This Week’s Story To turn the story Chang and the Bamboo Flute in StoryTown pg. 80.

29. Find the genre of this story.

31. This Week’s Goal I recognize a character’s traits and actions to determine the character’s motives.