Narrative plot
What is Text Structure: Narrative Plot?
The order of important events in a story that lead to the resolution of the problem.
What is theme?
The author's central idea or message about life.
What is Point of View?
Who is telling the story.
What is an inference?
putting together evidence form the text with your bg knowledge to help you make a good guess about something the author didn't say.
Where does quotations go?
After the end punctuation.
What is the first step?
Identify the exposition
What is theme development?
Theme development refers to how the author or poet creates the theme over the whole story or poem
What is the first step in comparing and contrasting POV across text?
Identify the POV
Why do we make an inferece?
to help us understand what is not stated in the story
When do you use a comma?
when there is no question mark or exclamation point.
In Rumbestilksin when the King kept asking her to turn straw into gold. What part of the plot was that and why?
What's the first step in finding the Theme Development?
Ask " what is the theme of the text?"
When comparing and contrasting the 2nd step is to what?
Explain what the POV tells us about the perspective of the characters.
What is the first step in making an inference?
Look for the nest piece of evidence form the text.
When do you use apostrophe's
to show ownership or for contractions.
What kind of conflict was the little girl having when her mother was sick and she had to go get her some water. Explain your answer.
External conflict because the conflict was caused by someone else.
What is the first step in identifying the theme?
"Ask what did the character learn from their internal conflict."
What is the difference between 1st and 3rd person and how can we tell?
1st person is when a character is the one telling the story. They use words like I, me, we, our, us.
3rd person is when the story is being told by someone not in the story. They use words like she, he, they.
What is the past tense begin? Is it regular or irregular?
Began
Name the steps of narrative plot and define each step.
Exposition- setting and character
rising action- conflict and atr
climax- a conflict where there seems to be no solution
falling action- the solution
resolution- how the story end
What are some clues the author can leave to help us see how the author developed the theme?
Bonus point: Think about the structure.
You can usually tell that a story is in first person because the author what?
States their feelings and and thoughts
Fix this sentence using quotations and apostrophes and end marks.
Chloe shouted Thats my pen
Chloe shouted, "That's my pen!"