Characters
Identify the character:
It was a dark and stormy day in late 1981. Mrs. Smith was baking cookies in her oven when she heard a noise coming from her front door.
Who is Mrs. Smith?
Identify the setting:
It was a dark and stormy day in late 1981. Mrs. Smith was baking cookies in her oven when she heard a noise coming from her front door.
What is 1981 in Mrs. Smith's house?
This part of the plot describes the characters and setting.
What is introduction?
The people or animals in the story.
What are characters?
Name some ways you can better understand a character.
What is their thoughts, words, and actions?
Identify the characters:
The space ship ended its hyperspace jump and was now in the Blue Galaxy. Jasmine and her family had been traveling for 12 hours and they were excited to start their new home on Planet Naboo.
Who are Jamine and her family?
Identify the setting:
The canons boomed as the soldiers approached. Nothing had been the same in Harold's life once the Revolutionary War started. His quiet farm life had been disrupted. He knew that growing his crops and donating them to the soldiers was an important job, but still he felt like he should do more. He wanted to enlist in the army but his mom told him he was too young.
What is the Revolutionary War on a farm?
This part of the plot introduces the problem.
The time and place of a story.
What is setting?
Why is the setting important?
What is it helps determine the events in the story and the characters actions?
How could you describe Hussain from this passage?
Hussain's legs were aching from the 2 hour hike up Mt. Hood. He kept repeating to himself "I can do it" as he continued his steep incline to the summit.
What is determined? What is tired?
Identify the setting:
The space ship ended its hyperspace jump and was now in the Blue Galaxy. Jasmine and her family had been traveling for 12 hours and they were excited to start their new home on Planet Naboo.
What is the Blue Galaxy/ Planet Naboo in the future.
This part of the plot tells about what happens as a result of the characters' decisions or discovery after the climax.
What is the falling action?
The events in a story.
What is plot?
What is introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
What evidence to you have to show that Jacob is selfish?
Jacob laid across his bed with his collection of Paw Patrol toys and Mickey Figures. He was 16 years old and just about to get a new car. He had outgrown his toys years ago, but kept them locked in his closet. His little brother loved Paw Patrol and Mickey Mouse, but Jacob refused to let him into his room to play.
What is Jacob keeps his toys away from his brother and locked in his room?
If the setting was changed to 2020 in Lewis Center, what might change about the story.
The space ship ended its hyperspace jump and was now in the Blue Galaxy. Jasmine and her family had been traveling for 12 hours and they were excited to start their new home on Planet Naboo.
What is the people would travel by car instead of space ship? What is they would be moving to a house in a neighborhood? Accept reasonable answers.
There are this many parts to a plot sequence.
What is five?
This part of the plot is the height of the action. The characters make a decision that will help them solve the problem.
What is climax?
Identify the character/ setting in this passage:
Simon rounded the bases and did a victory wave to his parents in the stands. He had just hit the winning homeroom in the 2019 Little League Championship.
How could you describe the main character?
2020 had been a year of surprises. Anjali's family had moved to house 3 hours away from all of Anjali's friends. While it was hard to meet new classmates, Anjali reached out to others on Roblox and left notes and treats for her neighbors.
What is optimistic? What is caring? Accept reasonable answers
What might change if the time period was 1980 instead of the Revolutionary War:
The canons boomed as the soldiers approached. Nothing had been the same in Harold's life once the Revolutionary War started. His quiet farm life had been disrupted. He knew that growing his crops and donating them to the soldiers was an important job, but still he felt like he should do more. He wanted to enlist in the army but his mom told him he was too young.
What is there wouldn't be cannons booming? What is there wouldn't be soldiers on the farm? What is he might not want to join the army? Accept reasonable answers.
Name all five parts to the plot sequence.
What are introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
This part of the plot includes the remaining pieces that helps bring the story to an ending that makes sense to the readers.
What is resolution?
What are characters, setting, and plot?