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Measuring Up! Lesson # 12. Analyze Plot. Anticipatory Set. Have you ever figured out the premise of a TV show within the first 5 minutes? Have you ever walked out of a movie because it just doesn ’ t seem to be “getting good?” Do you struggle with reading past the first 10 pages of a book?.
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Measuring Up!Lesson #12 Analyze Plot
Anticipatory Set • Have you ever figured out the premise of a TV show within the first 5 minutes? • Have you ever walked out of a movie because it just doesn’t seem to be “getting good?” • Do you struggle with reading past the first 10 pages of a book?
California Standard • Literary Response 8.3.2: Evaluate the structural elements of plot (e.g., subplots, parallel episodes, climax), the plot’s development, and the way in which conflicts are (or are not) addressed and resolved.
Input • plot: the pattern of events in a story. • Starts with a central problem or conflict that needs to be resolved.
Input • External Conflict: • between the main character and another character • between the main character and a group of characters or a community • between the main character and nature
Input • Internal Conflict: • between the main character and his or her conscience • between the main character and a strong emotion that has to be overcome, such as fear
Input • exposition: introduces the characters, setting, and conflict • rising action: builds the conflict and develops the characters
Input • climax: shows the highest or most exciting point in the action • resolution: major problem is resolved
Input • subplot: a secondary or less important plot • parallel episode: storyline that exists side by side with the main story
Input • chronological order: order in which things happened • foreshadowing: hinting at something that will happen later • flashback: look to the past.
Modeling Literary Response & Analysis Journal • Plot Page: • Captain Kidd on the Raritan Bay: The Legend of Captain Kidd
Check forUnderstanding Literary Response & Analysis Journal • Plot Page: • Captain Kidd on the Raritan Bay: The Legend of Captain Kidd
Guided Practice Literary Response & Analysis Journal Independent Practice • Plot Page: • Captain Kidd on the Raritan Bay: The Legend of Captain Kidd