The Buggy - Plot Story Arch

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

Reading time

Read your book (for your literature file)
or read a short story

This weeks stories are: The Buggy & Lamb to the slaughter
Next week's stories are: Charles & Roy Spivey

The Buggy 

Plot & Story Arch

Plot 

First, let's look at what actually happens:

Discuss your story arch on the plot itself (external)

External conflict

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Exposition	A man stops at a beach
Inciting inc.	Sees an abandoned buggy
Rising action/crisi	The walk is difficult, he gets wet
Climax	The buggy is empty
Falling action	Returns the buggy to the mother
Resolution	Calls his son and lies

Emotional arch

Now, let's look at what happens on the inside of our narrator.
The emotionl story arch, let's say. 

Create another arch (internal)

The emotional story arch (internal conflict)

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Exposition	He feels anxious and is hesitating to do something. He feels incompetent.
Inciting incident	He wants nothing to do with the buggy, he's anxious
Rising action/crisis	Remember his life and feels he doesn't live anymore
Climax	Wave of emotions washes over him: "relieved, disappointed, angry and delighted to be angry"
Falling action	Wants the mother to not see him as a pityful old man
Resolution	"Never felt happier": he feels alive again

What's the theme of the story?

Discuss in a group of 3

How do you know?
Which words/phrases show this?

Write your own personal reaction

Which part of the story did you like best? Why?
How did the story make you feel?
What do you think is the moral or the lesson of the story (if there is one to be found)?
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Hand it in, please

Read "your" story and do research on your literary device/term

Prepare your presentation
Work together
Make yourself proud

How happy are you with the progress you made today?

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Next week:

> Reading comprehension test (old exam)
> Study chapter 4 "Examen Idioom"
> First literary term presentations:
Week 3 (27 sept)
Short Story 03 Charles

Short Story 04 Roy Spivey

Foreshadowing Katie & Charles

Flat & Round Characters Lana & Nouha