Today in class we began our character study unit. We read one of our favorite stories, Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman. In September, we read this books and fell in love with the author's message. As a class we decided the author was teaching us to have courage and to persevere! Through class discussion, we were able to show evidence from the text to prove what we thought what the author's message was for this book. Today we revisited this book, but for a very different purpose. We read the book and studied the characters. We read closely pay special attention to what the character said during the story, and we also paid attention to the character's actions. We worked with our partners to come up with one internal trait for the characters and evidence from the text. Take a look at what we came up with...