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Teaching Plot Structure Through Short Stories

Teaching Plot Structure Through Short Stories. Plot is a causal arrangement of events and actions within a story. Types of Plot. Plots can be told in: Chronological order Flashback In media res (in the middle of things) when the story starts in the middle of the action without exposition.

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Teaching Plot Structure Through Short Stories

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  1. Teaching Plot Structure Through Short Stories Plot is a causal arrangement of events and actions within a story.

  2. Types of Plot Plots can be told in: • Chronological order • Flashback • In media res (in the middle of things) when the story starts in the middle of the action without exposition

  3. Pyramidal Plot • The most basic and traditional form of plot: • Based on Gustav Freytag’s Plot Structure & Aritotle’s Elements of the Greek Tragedy

  4. Plot Line Climax: The turning point. The most intense moment (either mentally or in action. Rising Action: the series of conflicts and crisis in the story that lead to the climax. Falling Action: all of the action which follows the Climax. Resolution: The conclusion, the tying together of all of the threads. Exposition: The start of the story. The way things are before the action starts.

  5. Conflict Conflict is the dramatic struggle between two forces in a story. Without conflict there is no plot.

  6. Types of Conflict • Man VS Man • Man VS Nature • Man VS Society • Man VS Himself

  7. Practice With Jack And The Beanstalk • With a partner go to the Jack and the Beanstalk interactive and drag the parts of the story into the right plot element. • Share your results with the rest of the class.

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