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Minute Mystery Sequence

Minute Mystery Sequence. Mr. Glen Dawursk, Jr. www.mrdclassroom.com. Assignment. Two Minute Mystery Descriptive Essay For our mystery unit, you are required to write a “2 Minute Mystery” following the format of those we have read and analyzed in class. Mystery Assignment.

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Minute Mystery Sequence

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  1. Minute Mystery Sequence Mr. Glen Dawursk, Jr. www.mrdclassroom.com

  2. Assignment • Two Minute Mystery Descriptive Essay • For our mystery unit, you are required to write a “2 Minute Mystery” following the format of those we have read and analyzed in class.

  3. Mystery Assignment • Use the title “The Case of ……” • Include clues and dialogue between characters. • Use plenty of descriptive words. • Be sure that it can be easily read in two minutes. • This means that is should be no longer than one page TYPED (word-processed), about 500 words. • The mystery plot should end with the detective (you) making an accusation followed by a question to the reader. • After the question, put the solution to the mystery at the bottom of the paper under the heading: “The Solution”

  4. Mystery Assignment Hand-in • YOU MUST DO BOTH to receive credit for the assignment! • Double-space type your mystery and print a copy to hand-in on the due date,and e-mail it to mystery@yuthguy.com. • Save your document file name as follows: “period number – your last name.doc”Example: 1-dawursk.doc

  5. Mystery: Plot • 2-Minute Plot • The sequence of action • The events which tell what happens in your mystery. • Whatever the characters do or did • Your mystery should answer who, what, where, when and why.

  6. Mystery: Structure • 2-Minute Structure • The framework that determines how a story is put together; its “skeleton.” • The structure of a “two-minute mystery” like many short stories includes five basic elements.

  7. Mystery: Plot Elements • The five main elements of any Mystery plot are: • Exposition (introduction) • Inciting Moment (Initial Complication) • Rising action (mini-complications) • Climax (crisis) • Denouement (resolution) 1/5 3/5 1/5

  8. Mystery: Plot Diagram CLIMAX A visual representation of the Mystery plot RISINGACTION EXPOSITION INCITINGMOMENT DENOUEMENT

  9. Mystery: Plot Diagram CLIMAX DENOUEMENT RISINGACTION EXPOSITION INCITING MOMENT

  10. Mystery: Exposition • Exposition is your Introduction • Usually one very descriptive sentence which simply tells when and/or where • Example: “It was a dark, rainy night in a town that never sleeps, when suddenly…”

  11. Mystery: Setting • Setting • Environment in which the story takes place. • Most of the setting will be given after the crime scene has been introduced. • Location; place • Date; time • Specific situation • Historical context

  12. Mystery: Plot Diagram CLIMAX DENOUEMENT RISINGACTION EXPOSITION INCITING MOMENT

  13. Mystery: Inciting Moment • Inciting Moment • The start of the conflict and usually the beginning of rising action • Conflict is the actual crime!

  14. The Conflict • There is only ONE conflict in a two-minute mystery; something illegal has just happened or was just discovered. • Examples: • I received a call from Margret Smith; there had been a murder outside her East condo. • I heard a knock at my door; it was Officer Jones informing me that the First Bank on Wells Street had just been robbed. • The detective received an urgent text stating that he was needed at Schmitty’s Bar on Edge Street as there was a dead body found in the dumpster.

  15. Mystery: Plot Diagram CLIMAX DENOUEMENT RISINGACTION EXPOSITION INCITING MOMENT

  16. Mystery: Exposition • Additional exposition is given AFTER the inciting moment in a minute mystery. • Location; place • Date; time • Specific situation • Historical context • Details are essential.

  17. Mystery: Characters • Characters • The individuals in the story. • This includes the victim, witnesses, and the accused. • This will be the bulk of your mystery: 3/5th of story. • Use dialog to give character attitude, misleading evidence and other clues.

  18. Mystery: Protagonist Protagonist • The main or central character in the story…is the detective, possibly “you” representing the victim.

  19. Mystery: Antagonist Antagonist • The adversary of the protagonist • The individual(s) who did the crime being investigated

  20. Mystery: Rising Action • Rising Action • The part of the story usually after the inciting moment where we are given the bulk of the clues, character descriptions, crime scene information and additional information.

  21. Mystery: Plot Diagram CLIMAX DENOUEMENT RISINGACTION EXPOSITION INCITING MOMENT

  22. Mystery: Climax • Climax • Where the detective says “You did it” and then the narration is followed with a question to the reader. • Question example: Who did it and why?

  23. Mystery: Plot Diagram CLIMAX DENOUEMENT RISINGACTION EXPOSITION INCITING MOMENT

  24. Mystery: Denouement • Denouement • French for “the tying of ends.” • Also called the resolution to the story. • Comes after the climax to bring aspects of the plot to a close. • Give the SOLUTION to the mystery

  25. Mystery: Plot Diagram CLIMAX A visual representation of the Mystery plot RISINGACTION EXPOSITION INCITINGMOMENT DENOUEMENT

  26. Two-Minute Mystery Mr. Glen Dawursk, Jr. www.mrdclassroom.com

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