Making Bubble Maps More Rigorous

Bubble maps are a great way to have students describe a character. I don't give them templates because I want them to come up with as many as they are capable of coming up with-naturally differentiated. After they write their adjectives I have them choose one and write about the evidence for that in the story. It's easy to say a character is brave-but why? It generates great discussions. We described Swift from A Wolf Called Wander and one of my students asked can you be brave and scared at the same time? 

Here are some examples;