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