A Detail's Contribution to Plot, Setting and Theme

A Detail's Contribution to Plot, Setting and Theme

What are you adding to it?

Learning Targets

• I can analyze a sentence or paragraph's contribution to plot, setting, or theme.

• I can explain a sentence or paragraph's contribution to plot, setting or theme.

Multiple Choice

Define structure.

• the organization of a text

• Wal-Mart

• the end of a problem

• a unit of lines

Analyzing...

First.determine the structure of your text.

How is it organized?

A Story's Structure is made of...

• sentences and paragraphs

• arranged into a sequence of events

• these events create Key Episodes

• the Key Episodes develop the Six Stages of Plot

• the Six Stages of Plot create a story

Analyzing...

For this step, you are determining the sentence or paragraph's place in the story.

Another word for place is stage.

Analyzing a Sentence's Contribution to Plot, Setting or Theme

• Role-job that sentence or paragraph has in the story

• Place-the stage of the story

• Contribution--introducing, developing, showing

• What is it adding to that idea's development?

IDEAS THAT ARE DEVELOPED IN A STORY:

• CONFLICT (PLOT)

• SETTING

• THEME

• CHARACTER TRAITS

Multiple Select

Development means... check all that apply

• growth

• advancement

• reduction

• falling

Multiple Select

IDEAS in stories that develop are... check all that apply

• setting

• conflicts

• theme

• character traits

Open Ended

In the correct order, list the six (or five) stages of plot.

Setting--for the entire story

• Time or time period

• Place

• mood

Open Ended

You would find these sentences and paragraphs in the ....stage of the story.

Open Ended

How do you analyze the contribution a sentence or paragraph makes towards the development of ideas in a story?

Multiple Select

What is the role of these sentences? check all that apply

• Introduce the setting

• Provide more details about the setting

• Shows how the characters lived.

• Creating a mood.

Open Ended

Now, explain the contribution of the sentences highlighted in orange.

Open Ended

How do you EXPLAIN a sentence or paragraph's contribution to the development of an idea?

Multiple Choice

Which stage of the plot develops the conflict?

• the exposition

• beginning

• rising action

• resolution

Open Ended

In which stage of plot is the protagonist most uncomfortable with the conflict?

Multiple Choice

In which stage of plot does the conflict reach its conclusion?

• falling action

• resolution

• middle

• climax

Multiple Choice

Which stage of plot introduces the readers to the emperor's traits?

• the falling action

• the rising action

• the climax

• exposition

Multiple Choice

At which point does the emperor have a change of heart?

• the exposition

• climax

• rising action

• falling action

Multiple Choice

How does the emperor handle his new circumstances?

• He has the swindlers arrested.

• He hides in shame.

• He continues to buy more clothes.

• He enjoys looking good.

Multiple Select

For theme development, look for details that: (check all that apply)

• introduce character traits

• show the character's response to the problem

• details that describe new traits

• details that describe the resolution