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T: “The Bet” A: Anton Chekhov N: Russian G: short story

T: “The Bet” A: Anton Chekhov N: Russian G: short story. pages 950-957. Short Story. Fictional work usually less than 40 pages Deals with a single conflict and theme. Fiction. Stories that are made up Not true Usually written in prose. En Media Res.

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T: “The Bet” A: Anton Chekhov N: Russian G: short story

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  1. T: “The Bet” A: Anton ChekhovN: Russian G: short story pages 950-957

  2. Short Story • Fictional work usually less than 40 pages • Deals with a single conflict and theme

  3. Fiction • Stories that are made up • Not true • Usually written in prose

  4. En Media Res • Latin for “in the middle of things” • when the story starts in the middle of events, flashes back, then picks back up in real time • example: • The Odyssey starts when Odysseus is almost home after twenty years away; he tells of his adventures, then goes home and takes care of things there.

  5. Flashback • A scene that interrupts the present action of the plot to flash backward and tell what happened at an earlier time.

  6. Types of characters • Dynamic character- changes as the result of the story’s event. • Static character- does not change in the story. • Round character- has many different character traits, which may contradict one another. (Like a real person) • Flat character- has only one or two traits.

  7. conflict: struggle or clash between opposing characters or opposing forces. -internal conflict: a struggle within a character’s own mind. -external conflict: a character struggles against an outside force (another character, nature, or society).

  8. motivation: the reason or reasons behind a character’s action. (The reason why a character does something.)

  9. vocabulary • Find clock partners • Record and study the vocabulary on page 950. • 12:00- Create a sentence using the vocabulary.

  10. 3:00- How do you think a long period of isolation would affect you? Do you think you could survive complete isolation? What things would you have to have in order to get through complete solitude? • View selections from Cast Away. • Begin reading “The Bet.”

  11. 6:00- List the terms of the bet (pages 952-953). • 9:00 – List what the lawyer did for each of the following years: • 1st year: • 2nd year: • 5th year: • 6th – 10th years: • After the 10th year: • Last two years:

  12. Answer questions 1, 3, 4, 7, and 8 on page 957. • Review flashback, motivation, dynamic character, static character, flat character, and round character. Find examples of each from “The Bet.”

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