YEAR 3 Conflict and Plot

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo, havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 3

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

Discuss your reading

10-15 minutes

What is "conflict"?

External conflict:

* character vs. character

* character vs. society

* character vs. nature

* character vs. technology

Internal conflict:

* character vs. self

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

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-

ever-after-stage

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. 

Literary one-pager

Step 1: choose four elements 

Step 2: brainstorm

Step 3: read the rubric

Step 4: look at the example

Step 5: start your own literary one-pager!

Next week: more about theme and symbolism.

Rest of Class

• Silent reading

• Final assignment
  

• Stepping Stones