What do all these situations have in common?

1. What do all these situations have in common? • 1. Lakeira kicks Edwin. • 2. Edwin shouts angrily at Lakeira. • 3. Maya cannot decide which eligible young bachelor she wants to date. • 4. Ms. Smith and Mr. White get into a shouting match about which is better: reading or writing. • 5. Everton has mixed emotions toward his girlfriend and doesn't know whether he wants to continue to see her. • 6. Ciani gets stuck in a thunderstorm without an umbrella. • 7. All of the kids at Jazmin's old school snub her because they think she's too smart. • 8. Shenika is offered a partial ride to a boarding school in Japan and a full ride to a boarding school in Pennsylvania. She doesn't know which opportunity she should choose. • 9. On a visit to a New England boarding school, a group of Philadelphia Academy students get stuck in an ice storm and have to reschedule one of their visits.

2. What do you know about conflicts in stories?

3. Types of conflict • Internal • A problem a person has within him/herself • External • A problem a person has with someone or something else

4. Can you think of an example of a type of external conflict? • Internal conflict?

5. Types of external conflict • Man vs. nature • Person encounters bad weather, plane crash etc. • Man Vs. Man • A problem a person with someone else • Human vs. Society • A problem a person has with a group of people or a belief of a group of people

6. What type of external conflict is… • It raining constantly on venus in “All Summer in a Day”? • William putting margot in the closet? • The dad and the family wanting different things in “Dark they were, and golden eyed.”

7. Types of internal conflict • Man vs. self • internal struggle--difficulty making a decision, or experiencing guilt, mixed feelings or confusion

8. Using an AR book that you have read. Can you explain an internal conflict that a character had?