We're Going on an Adventure; Plot

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo, havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 1

In class this week

• Discuss your reading
• Plot and structure
• Plot in your novel
• Silent reading/ independent work

Discuss your reading

10-15 minutes

What is "plot"?

Plot

• Plot is what happens in a story and how these things are told.
  
• Most stories have the same structure
• Freytag's Pyramid

Exposition

• The start of the story.
• The protagonist is introduced.
• The (main/first) setting is described.
• Something happens

Rising Action

• Events unfold
• things happen
• more problems
• more exciting

Climax

• Most exciting
• Problems at max
• Can't stop reading/playing/watching

Falling Action

• Main problem is solved
• Other (minor) problems are resolved
• Questions are answered

Denouement

• The they-lived-happily-every-after-stage

Plot in your novel;

• Go to page 27 of your iBook.
  
• Answer the questions in your bookclubs

• This is also part of your final assignment
  

Rest of Class

• Silent reading
  
• final assignment
  
• Stepping Stones