Plot Review

Plot Review

Today's Assignments

​1.2.4 and 1.2.5

​Exposition

• ​introduces the characters

• ​introduces the setting

• ​gives us background knowledge important to the story

Rising Action

• ​begins with inciting incident - where the conflict(s) start

• where the plot truly begins

• ​we are waiting to see what will happen next

Climax

• ​the turning point in the story

• we see what happens; we find the answer to the conflict

• changes the character in some way

Falling Action

• ​events that lead to the resolution

• ​how do we get to the happily ever after?

Resolution

• we see what happens in their lives next

• ​The End

Multiple Choice

Which sentence in the passage is the best example of a climax?

1) Jonah's mother was having a baby, but they didn't know if it would be a boy or a girl. 2) Jonah very much wanted a sister, because he already had a brother. 3) Jonah waited impatiently at home with his grandmother until his father finally returned from the hospital. 4) His father picked him up, hugged him, and told him he had a baby sister. 5)Jonah would wind up treating his sister like a princess for their entire lives. 

• 1) Jonah's mother was having a baby, but they didn't know if it would be a boy or a girl.

• 2) Jonah very much wanted a sister, because he already had a brother.

• 3) Jonah waited impatiently at home with his grandmother until his father finally returned from the hospital.

• 4) His father picked him up, hugged him, and told him he had a baby sister. 

• 5) Jonah would wind up treating his sister like a princess for their entire lives.

​​Sentence 1 and 2 introduce the characters and the conflict.

​Sentence 3 is the rising action as we wait with Jonah and are excited to see what comes next.

Sentence 4 is where we finally find out! Woah! Big reveal! It's a girl!

​Sentence 5 is the falling action and resolution (what happens now that he has a sister?).

​Last question explained!

Multiple Select

Which sentence(s) in the passage are the best example of exposition?

1) Snow was falling. 2) Kara, who stood with the crowd watching the bike race, kept her eye on her sister, who was in the lead. 3) Kara knew the snow would make the course more slippery and dangerous, and that made her worry. 4) The flakes of snow grew bigger and wetter and started coming down even harder.

• 1) Snow was falling.

• 2) Kara, who stood with the crowd watching the bike race, kept her eye on her sister, who was in the lead.

• 3) Kara knew the snow would make the course more slippery and dangerous, and that made her worry.

• 4) The flakes of snow grew bigger and wetter and started coming down even harder.

​​Sentences 1 and 2 introduce the setting (snowing at a bike race), the characters (Kara and her sister), and  some background information (her sister is a good racer).

​Sentences 3 and 4 set up the conflict and danger, but don't show us a crash or near crash.

​Last question explained!

​Story doesn't get this far!

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