Activity 2.10 Making Connections and Visualizing Art

Activity 2.10 Making Connections and Visualizing Art

By Scott Cortez

Objectives

CO: We will describe how a particular story’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes, as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution. (RL6.3)

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• Analyze internal and external conflicts and how characters respond to conflict in a text.

• Make connections within a text, between texts, between a text and self, and between a text and the broader world.

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Synthesize the literary elements of Walk Two Moons in order to create a collaborative visual representation.

​Learning Targets pg. 115

Internal and External Conflicts

As you viewed clips from the film Up, you analyzed many internal and external forces that cause Carl Fredrickson to change. Whenever the main character struggles against internal and external forces, there is a conflict in the story.

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Poll

What are possible internal conflicts, such as a difficult decision or emotion, that Carl Fredrickson struggles with?

• Finding a new partner in life

• Moving on without Ellie by his side

• Getting closer to other people emotionally

• Deciding to get a pet or not

• Letting go of the past to move on

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What are possible external conflicts, such as a force of nature or another character, that Carl Fredrickson struggles against?

• Learning his childhood idol is a bad person

• Letting go of the house he and Ellie built

• Old age

• Letting Russel become part of his life

• The winds while traveling to Paradise Falls

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• Give one of the faces below long straight hair (Sal) and the other one curly hair (Phoebe). 

• Review your note-taking in your double-entry journal for Walk Two Moons. Add examples of conflict to the faces. 

• Put at least one internal conflict inside each face and one external conflict outside each face.

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• In a collaborative group, compare and contrast your visualization of conflicts in the two characters above. 

• Based on your analysis, discuss who is struggling more with internal conflict and who is struggling more with external conflict.

I noticed (Partners Name) wrote Phoebe/Sal had an (external/internal) conflict with_________.

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Open Ended

In a collaborative group, compare and contrast your visualization of conflicts in the two characters above.

Based on your analysis, discuss who is struggling more with internal conflict and who is struggling more with external conflict.

I noticed (Partners Name) wrote Phoebe/Sal had an (external/internal) conflict with_________.

Making Connections

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An important element of literary analysis is recognizing that the events and conflicts in a text are similar to events in other texts and to those in real life.

Making connections between texts and between texts and life helps you not only understand the text but also to understand the life lessons it may teach.

Make connections between Walk Two Moons, other texts, yourself, and the world. Record your ideas in the graphic organizer.

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Making text connections also involves reflecting on what has happened in the book up to this point and predicting what will happen next. Use the list below to connect the past to the future in Walk Two Moons.

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What has happened previously in the book?

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What do you predict will happen as the book continues?