StandardStuff
What ELAGSE standard are we studying?
ELAGSE6RL3: Describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
Name the 5 points of a Plot Diagram
1. Exposition
2. Rising Action
3. Climax
4. Falling Action
5. Resolution
Conflict:
•The struggle between two forces in the story. Conflict provides interest, suspense, and tension.
Climax
•The “high point”. This is the turning point of the story. Usually the main character comes face to face with a conflict. The main character will change in some way.
Beginning of Story
1. Exposition
2. Rising Action
EQ:
How does a particular story’s plot progress to a resolution and how do the characters change?
•This usually occurs at the beginning of a short story. Here the characters are introduced. We also learn about the setting of the story. This section also presents other facts necessary to understanding the story
Exposition
Character vs. Character
two or more characters have a problem
•All loose ends of the plot are tied up. The conflict(s) and climax are taken care of.
Falling Action
Middle of Story
Climax
4 things that every story needs:
•Plot
•Theme
•Characters
•Setting
•Conflict
Important Parts of the Exposition:
•Setting
–Time
–Place
•Characters
–Protagonist: The main character; the hero
–Antagonist: The character who is in conflict with the protagonist in some way; the “bad guy”
•Static: Character stays the same
•Dynamic: Character changes in some way
characters have to fight against a force of nature. Ex/ storm, disease
Character vs. Nature
•The story comes to a reasonable ending.
Resolution
Climax
Middle of Story
What is plot?
Plot concerns the organization of the main events of a work of fiction. Most plots will trace some process of change in which characters are caught up in a conflict that is eventually resolved.
Rising Action
•The rising action includes all the events that lead to the climax. It also presents some type of conflict
*character fights against rules of society. Ex/ a character fights racism
Character vs. Society
A STATIC character
Remains the same at the end of the story
Falling Action/Resolution
End of Story
What is your level zero voice?
silence
What is First Person Point of View?
•1st person
–This is where the story is told through a main character's eyes. The story is told using 1st person personal pronouns such as I, me, we, or us.
Character vs. Self
* The character is dealing with an internal struggle. Usually moral
ex/ Tom Sawyer doesn’t know if he should testify in court against Injun Joe
The setting is made up of:
a.Time and Place
The main character of the story is:
The protagonist