This lesson contains 16 slides, with interactive quizzes and text slides.
Lesson duration is: 60 min
Items in this lesson
In Class Today
10 min. discuss your reading
10 min. conflict and plot
10 min. discuss conflict and plot in your novel
10 min. presentation about conflict (and plot)
15-20 min. silent reading / independent work
Slide 1 - Slide
Discuss your reading
10-15 minutes
timer
10:00
Slide 2 - Slide
What is "conflict"?
Slide 3 - Open question
Slide 4 - Slide
External conflict:
* character vs. character
* character vs. society
* character vs. nature
* character vs. technology
Internal conflict:
* character vs. self
Slide 5 - Slide
What is "plot"?
Slide 6 - Open question
Plot
Plot is what happens in a story and how these things are told.
Most stories have the same structure.
> Freytag's Pyramid
Slide 7 - Slide
Freytag's Pyramid
Slide 8 - Slide
Exposition
> the start of the story
> the protagonist is introduced
> the (main/first) setting is described
> something happens
Slide 9 - Slide
Rising Action
> events unfold
> things happen
> more problems
> more exciting
Slide 10 - Slide
Climax
> most exciting
> problems at max
> can't stop reading/ playing/watching
Slide 11 - Slide
Falling Action
> main problem is solved
> other (minor) problems are resolved
> questions are answered
Slide 12 - Slide
Denouement
The they-lived-happily-
ever-after-stage
Slide 13 - Slide
Literary one-pager
A one-pager is an analytical, creative, and written response to a novel that completely fills one side of a piece of paper. For your one-pager, you’ll want to focus on the big ideas from the novel including theme, conflict, setting, and characterization, as well as literary devices and elements.
Lesson duration is: 60 min
