Directions: Make up appropriate names for each of the characters described below. Let the sound and the connotation of the name help reveal this character's nature.

1. A first-grader who acts like an angel at home and turns into a brat at school
2. A fifth-grader with a crush on the music teacher
3. A thirteen-year-old who deliberately sets out to become popular
4. A high school senior who was falsely accused of selling drugs
5. A local boy who is the school's Tom Cruise.
6. A local girl who is the school's Brooke Shields
7. A grandmother who does the comfortable things grandmothers are famous for -- crochet, garden, can peach preserves, etc.
8. An eighty-year-old man who insists on moving into an old folks’ home in spite of his family’s protests
9. A securities analyst who had studied at Juillard and gives piano lessons on the side
10. A female teacher who once was asked to pose for Playboy
11. A middle-aged Jewish immigrant from Poland who sews dresses
12. A teenager changed forever by the experience of killing a deer
13. A man who breeds silver foxes, living off the pelts he prepares for sale
14. A quiet, mousy young woman of thirty who is secretly psychic
15. An elegant, efficient female business executive of thirty
16. A middle-aged cowboy who owns his own ranch
17. An outgoing, attractive male of thirty who plays professional basketball
18. A shy, insecure thirty-year-old man who still lives at home with his mother
19. A cruel, sadistic murderer who preys on elderly women
20. A bride from New York, just arriving in the Western town where her husband is sheriff
21. A pseudonym used for romance novels by a serious mainstream writer
22. A pseudonym used for serious mainstream novels by a romance writer
23. A highly-decorated soldier returning from a tour of duty in Vietnam
24. A child born to ‘flower children’ of the Sixties
25. A baby born blind
26. A heavy metal rock star
27. A tough female private investigator
28. A nosy neighbor who starts untrue gossip about teenagers
29. A sheriff of a small midwestern town
30. A chief of police of a large eastern city
31. A check-out clerk in a supermarket
32. A Hollywood starlet
33. A country-and-western singer
34. A bullfighter
35. A Caribbean pirate
36. A foreign correspondent
37. A shopkeeper in a small New England town
38. A mother who is a closet alcoholic
39. A father who understands all teenagers -- except his own son
40. A Shakespearean actor
41. A homeless beggar
42. A stowaway on an interstellar flight
43. A lovable, friendly alien from another solar system
44. A monster that plans to conquer earth
45. A dragon
46. A lost pet
47. An angel
48. A ghost
49. An ‘artificially intelligent’ computer that speaks, writes poetry, and dreams
50. A new sophomore in your teacher’s English class