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What do you see? What do you think this painting is about? Who are these people?

What do you see? What do you think this painting is about? Who are these people?. Look closer…. Short Story Unit Essential Questions. What information lies below the surface? How can close reading reveal information the author buried below the surface?

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What do you see? What do you think this painting is about? Who are these people?

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  1. What do you see?What do you think this painting is about?Who are these people?

  2. Look closer…

  3. Short Story Unit Essential Questions • What information lies below the surface? • How can close reading reveal information the author buried below the surface? • What details should we leave buried in our own writing? How do we do this? • How can we apply analytical and observations skills to our own lives?

  4. Becoming a Literary Detective

  5. The Elements of Plot Reading 3.3: Analyze interactions between main and subordinate characters in a literary text (internal and external conflicts, motivations, relationships, influences) and explain the way those interactions affect the plot

  6. Why is Plot Structure Important? • PLOT: the organized pattern or sequence of events that make up a story. Every plot is made up of a series of incidents that are related to one another. • The plot draws the reader into the character's lives and helps the reader understand the choices that the characters make. • A plot's structure is the way in which the story elements are arranged. Writers vary structure depending on the needs of the story. • Authors make their stories interesting by manipulating plot structure to create suspense, intrigue, anticipation, and conflict.

  7. Basic Plot Structure Climax The turning point. The main character faces the conflict and changes in some way. Falling Action Loose ends of the plot are tied up and the conflicts are resolved. RisingAction The series of conflicts or events leading up to the climax. Conclusion The story comes to a reasonable ending. Exposition Introduces basic information about the story. Tells the reader who the characters are, where and when the story takes place, and what the basic conflict is.

  8. Practice: Plot Structure of “Cinderella” Climax The Prince tries the slipper on all the maidens in town to find the woman from the ball. He finally tries Cinderella and the slipper fits. RisingAction The King invites all single women to a ball to meet his son, the Prince. Cinderella’s fairy godmother puts a spell on her so she can attend. The Prince immediately loves Cinderella, but she runs away, leaving her glass slipper behind. Falling Action Cinderella’s sisters apologize for being mean to her, and Cinderella forgives them. Conclusion Cinderella marries the Prince. Her stepsisters marry two lords. Exposition Cinderella is a beautiful girl trapped in her evil stepmother’s house. She has three mean stepsisters, and has to do all of the housework. Her real parents died long ago. Cinderella and her stepsisters are eager to get married.

  9. Character Traits Reading 3.4: Determine characters’ traits by what the characters say about themselves in narration, dialogue, dramatic monologue, and soliloquy

  10. Characterization • An author must use words to create a mental image of the characters in a story. • Authors use characterization to make their characters complex and interesting. • Direct Characterization: the author tellsthe audience what the personality of the character is. • Ex: “The patient boy and quiet girl were both well mannered and did not disobey their mother.” • Indirect Characterization: the author shows details that reveal the personality of a character. • Ex: “The boy knew he was wrong and did not want to go to bed, but he looked at his mother’s stern face and he dragged himself to his room anyway.”

  11. Identifying Character Traits • VALUES – what does the character care for? • LONGINGS – what does the character desire or try to obtain/achieve? • ATTITUDE – what kind of mental outlook does the character have? • MOTIVES – what inspires or drives the character to act in a certain way? • INTENTIONS – what does the character plan to do? • FLAWS – what imperfections or weaknesses does the character have?

  12. Methods of Characterization • Authors communicate information about their characters by using: • Physical appearance of the character • Interactions between characters • Narration about the character and hat the character is thinking • Dialogue of or about the character • Actions of the character

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