3 Short Stories project: elements of a story

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This lesson contains 39 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 2 videos.

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What is a short story?

Slide 2 - Open question

What is a short story? 
  • A short story is any story between 1,000 and 10,000 words.
  • Tells about a single event or experience.
  • Fictional (not true)
  • It has a beginning, middle, and end.
  • Creates an impression on the reader.

Slide 3 - Slide

Short Story Elements 
  1. Setting
  2. Characterization
  3. Plot
  4. Conflict
  5. Climax
  6. Resolution
  7. Theme
  8. Point of view

Slide 4 - Slide

Setting 






              Tells the reader where and  the story takes place.

Slide 5 - Slide

Characterization

Creation of imaginary people 
who appear to be real to the reader. 
The writer gives information about 
the characters in the story.

Slide 6 - Slide

Plot

A series of events through 
which the writer reveals what 
is happening, to whom, and why.

Slide 7 - Slide

Slide 8 - Video

Slide 9 - Slide

Conflict

Is a problem in the story 
that needs to be resolved.

Slide 10 - Slide

Climax

When the action comes to 
its highest point of conflict.
When it can go one way 
or another.

Slide 11 - Slide

Resolution

The story’s action after 
the climax until the end 
of the story. 
How the conflict is solved.
The “conclusion” of the story.

Slide 12 - Slide

Theme

The story’s main ideas.

The “message” the writer intends to
communicate by telling the story

Slide 13 - Slide

Point of view

The position of the narrator of the story 
and what the writer sees from that 
vantage point.

Slide 14 - Slide

Knowledge check!
Connect the names to the 
pictures of the writers
on the next slide.

You may ask your teacher for tips.

Slide 15 - Slide

Today

We will read some and do exercises 

Slide 16 - Slide

The questions: 
Q1: Explain in your own words, what is a short story? 
Q2: What is typical for a short story? (Name 3 things) 
Q3: Name 3 short story writers and 2 of the stories they wrote
Q4: Imagine being a short story writer, where would you get your inspiration? 
Q5: If you would read a short story: what genre would it have to be and why? 

Slide 17 - Slide

What is a short story?

Slide 18 - Open question

What is a short story? 
  • A short story is any story between 1,000 and 10,000 words.
  • Tells about a single event or experience.
  • Fictional (not true)
  • It has a beginning, middle, and end.
  • Creates an impression on the reader.

Slide 19 - Slide

Short Story Elements 
  1. Setting
  2. Characterization
  3. Plot
  4. Conflict
  5. Climax
  6. Resolution
  7. Theme
  8. Point of view

Slide 20 - Slide

Setting 






              Tells the reader where and  the story takes place.

Slide 21 - Slide

Characterization

Creation of imaginary people 
who appear to be real to the reader. 
The writer gives information about 
the characters in the story.

Slide 22 - Slide

Plot

A series of events through 
which the writer reveals what 
is happening, to whom, and why.

Slide 23 - Slide

Slide 24 - Video

Slide 25 - Slide

Conflict

Is a problem in the story 
that needs to be resolved.

Slide 26 - Slide

Climax

When the action comes to 
its highest point of conflict.
When it can go one way 
or another.

Slide 27 - Slide

Resolution

The story’s action after 
the climax until the end 
of the story. 
How the conflict is solved.
The “conclusion” of the story.

Slide 28 - Slide

Theme

The story’s main ideas.

The “message” the writer intends to
communicate by telling the story

Slide 29 - Slide

Point of view

The position of the narrator of the story 
and what the writer sees from that 
vantage point.

Slide 30 - Slide

Knowledge check!
Connect the names to the 
pictures of the writers
on the next slide.

You may ask your teacher for tips.

Slide 31 - Slide

Roald Dahl
Neil Gaiman
Mary Shelley
Agatha Christie

Slide 32 - Drag question

Well done! 
Let's do it again. But now you'll
connect the writers to what they 
have written.

You may ask your teacher for tips.

Slide 33 - Slide

Matilda
Frankenstein
Good Omens
Sherlock Holmes

Slide 34 - Drag question

The writers
In the previous slides you got to meet 2 of the 4 writers who have penned the stories in your reader.

In the next slides, answer the questions about the other two. 

Slide 35 - Slide

Who are the four writers who penned the short stories in your reader?

Slide 36 - Open question

What are the other two authors, who were not mentioned on the photo slides, famous for?

Slide 37 - Open question

Today

We will read some and do exercises 

Slide 38 - Slide

The questions: 
Q1: Explain in your own words, what is a short story? 
Q2: What is typical for a short story? (Name 3 things) 
Q3: Name 3 short story writers and 2 of the stories they wrote
Q4: Imagine being a short story writer, where would you get your inspiration? 
Q5: If you would read a short story: what genre would it have to be and why? 

Slide 39 - Slide