October 31, 2017
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5
Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
E.Q: Define each component of a texts structure and identify each part in Cinderella.
Starter:
Reflect back on yesterdays seminar.
How did it improve?
What can we continue to work on?
This should be approximately five sentences.
Vocabulary:
Word: Structure
Part of Speech: Noun
Dictionary Definition: the arrangement of and relations between the parts or elements of something complex
Your Definition:
Activity: Use the word structure in a sentence.
Activity:
Use the link above to take notes on plot structure.
(Focus on exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution)
If you have extra time you can add examples to your notes.
As a class, we will read through the short story.
While we are reading, reflect on why the story is structured the way it is.
With your tables, complete a plot diagram.
3. Creative Writing
Find a picture that inspires you.
Use the picture to help you write a piece of flash fiction (approximately 300 words).
Purposefully craft your story to have a strong foundation/structure.
(Painting by DELA)
Eventually, you will swap stories to identify the parts of the plot.
Closure:
How did having a picture help you create your story?
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