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Chapter 1: Plot and Setting

Chapter 1: Plot and Setting. Plot and Setting “Just Once” “All Summer in a Day” “Suit Helps Girl Enjoy Daylight” “What Will Our Towns Look Like?”. Chapter 1: Plot and Setting. Plot: the series of events in a story Conflict: a struggle or problem Complication: new problems come up

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Chapter 1: Plot and Setting

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  1. Chapter 1: Plot and Setting Plot and Setting “Just Once” “All Summer in a Day” “Suit Helps Girl Enjoy Daylight” “What Will Our Towns Look Like?”

  2. Chapter 1: Plot and Setting • Plot: the series of events in a story • Conflict: a struggle or problem • Complication: new problems come up • Climax: most exciting moment of the story • Resolution: final part of the story; how it ends • Setting: Where and when the action of a story takes place – a story can not exist without a setting

  3. Plot and Conflict: “Just Once” • Genre: short story • Focus: conflict • Conflict: a struggle between two opposing views or situations • Skill: retelling • Retelling: recall the conflict and the most important events in the plot

  4. Setting: “All Summer in a Day” • Genre: short story • Focus: setting • Setting: the place and time of the story. • Skill: making inferences • Making Inferences: a kind of guess; look for clues and figure out things the author doesn’t tell you directly • Literary Response & Analysis • 5. At the story’s resolution, • 9. The setting of ________ is so important to the plot because

  5. Features of a Newspaper: “Suit Helps Girl Enjoy Daylight” • Popular Media: informational materials that share information with the general public. Examples: newspapers, magazines • Features of a Newspaper: • Sections: how the newspaper is divided. Examples: sports, world news, weather, etc. • Headlines: titles of the articles • Byline: name of the reporter who wrote the article • Dateline: name of the place where the event happened and the date it occurred. • Lead: the beginning of the article where the most important information is revealed.

  6. Structural Features of Magazines: “What Will Our Towns Look Like?” • Structural Features of a Magazine: • The Cover: art and main headlines • The Contents Page: lists articles and their page numbers • Magazine Articles: • Title: catches readers attention • Subtitle: secondary title that tells you more about the article • Headings: words or phrases used to break the article into sections • Captions: brief informational sentences printed below illustrations.

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