Aim: What are the elements of the short story?

1. Aim: What are the elements of the short story? Students will be able to: Identify the elements of the short story Establish working definitions of the elements of a short story Discuss a well known fairytale Apply elements of short story to the fairytale

2. Do Now • What is a short story? Explain. • What are the characteristics that define a short story? • How can we use what we have come up with to create a definition for the short story? Latoya A. Henry

3. “The Three Little Pigs” Listen (and read along) to this short story and write down anything you notice the story having. Latoya A. Henry

4. “The Three Little Pigs” What did you write down? title introduction characters setting point of view plot rising action conflict climax falling Action conclusion Latoya A. Henry

5. Create a New Story by Changing the Elements of the “Three Little Pigs” • Divide into groups of 4 • Each person within the group will be given a different element of the story to change • Character • Setting • Plot • Point-of-View Latoya A. Henry

6. Name: _______________________ • Date: _______________________ • Subject: _______________________ • Identify the various sections of plot development in __________________________. • Name of Story • Exposition • (Opening Action) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • Rising action • ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • Climax • ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • Falling Action • ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • Denouement • ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Latoya A. Henry

7. Each element of the story is very important to the whole story. As you can see, changing any one part of these elements can give you an entirely new story. This shows us how important each part is. Latoya A. Henry