week 2.1 Freytag Pyramid

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• Leerjaar 3

Week 40

Learning Targets

Understand how to analyze a short story and describe short story  elements: 

•  plot  (introduction, rising action, climax, falling action and denoument ( final outcome), 

Today

-  Freytag's pyramid

-extra practice

Tools for working on short stories

• Plot and tension  rising action - Freytag's Pyramid 
• Character
• Theme 
• Setting
• Narration
• Symbolism
  

What do you already know about plot and tension?

Plot

Plot is what happens in a story and how these things are told. The actions  and  the follow-up of these actions. 

Most stories have the same structure.

> Freytag's Pyramid

Freytag's Pyramid

Exposition

> the start of the story

> the protagonist is introduced

> the (main/first) setting is described

> something happens

EXPOSITION: the background, setting, characters, setting the scene

Inciting incident

Something happens to begin the action

Rising Action

> events unfold

> things happen

> more problems

> more exciting

The story builds

Climax

> most exciting

> problems at max

> can't stop reading/ playing/watching

The point of greatest tension, the point of no return

Falling Action

> main problem is solved

> other (minor) problems are resolved

> questions are answered

Events that happen as a result of the climax

Resolution

The character solves the problem or conflict. Events that happen as a result of the climax.

Denouement/

The they-lived-happily-

ever-after-stage

!not always happy ending!

Freytag's Pyramid

Can you fill in Freytag's pyramid for Kitbull? 

What is the climax of the story?

Als je in het Engels een werkwoord in de verleden tijd wilt zetten dan doe je dat door er -ED achter te zetten. 

to walk --> walked

to smile --> smiled

to cry --> cried

Bij sommige werkwoorden telt die regel niet. Ze zijn ONREGELMATIG. 

Daarom moet je ze leren. (Rij 2).

to be --> was

to have --> had

to fly --> flew

Wat zijn Irregular Verbs?

What is the theme of the story?