Friday, September 13, 2013

Learning Objectives:

• Apply terminology to points in a plot
• Determine plot of a narrative from TV

Opening

1.  Review the following terms to your Glossary of Reading Terms.  Be sure you have defined and provided examples for each.

• Exposition/Introduction
• Turning Point
• Rising Action
• Crisis Point
• Falling Action
• Resolution

2. Think again about your own novel.  

Retell the plot to your small group:
A. Discuss your novel's Introduction/Exposition (Why these terms?)

• In a small groups:
• Identify the Introduction
• What did you learn from reading the introduction?
• What do you know about the setting?
• What do you know about the protagonist?
• What else is introduced in this section?
• How did it set you up to understand the story?

B. Identify the TURNING POINT from early in your book.

• When does the Conflict really start to show its face and affect the plot?
• Explain how you know

C. In your Novel, what events make the story more dramatic?
What events make up your novel's Rising Action? 

D. Discuss if you've reached the Crisis Point in your novel?  

• What happened?
• What made it so dramatic?

Large Group:

E. In what ways are the Falling Action and the Resolution of a novel so important?  What is entertaining about them?

• Reminder: The packet I handed out a few days ago.  

• Page TWO has the Narrative/Plot Structure diagram.
• Keep this as a reference
• A "Narrative Structure" diagram is a way to finalize a book in your Annotated Bibliography.

3. Add PLOT to your Glossary of Reading Terms

Work Period:

4. Recall a television show and sketch out the plot (5-6 events) on a timeline in your notes on reading.

• Identify the characters
• Describe the setting
• Label the TURNING POINT in the PLOT
• Label the CRISIS POINT in the PLOT

Closing:

5. Return to your Notes on Reading.  

• What have we done in the last two weeks
• Create a list with me
• Identify each activity in your Table of Contents
• Follow the model on the whiteboard.