RW_11.02.23

HISD 4th Grade

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November 2, 2023

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TEKS: 4.8C Analyze plot elements, including the rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.

LO: SWBAT analyze plot elements in a narrative
poem, including the rising action, climax, falling
action, and resolution.

DOL: Given a poem, SW analyze plot elements in a
narrative poem, including the rising action, climax,
falling action, and resolution correctly and get at least 4 of 6 points.

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Academic Vocabulary

rising
action

climax

includes the
events that
lead to the
conflict.

is the turning
point of the
conflict.

includes the
events that
lead to settling the
conflict.

something in
a story that
creates a
challenge for
the characters;
also called
problem.

resolution

is the
conclusion
or how the
conflict is
solved.

falling
action

conflict

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Why is the
plot of the

poem

important

for the

reader to

understand?

“Plot” Anchor Chart from HMH – used with permission © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

Rising Action

Falling Action

Resolution

Conflict

Climax

The Penguin Who Didn’t Like Snow

Down at the South Pole lived a penguin named Mo,
who told his friends sadly, “I do not like snow.
It’s cold and it’s wet, and I’m shivering so,”
as he chittered while watching a wild blizzard blow.

5 He wore a wool jumper from kind Auntie Flo,

and gloves and a scarf from his dear Uncle Joe,
but he still sniffed and sneezed, feeling lonely and low,
as his friends splashed and laughed in the ice pool below.

He sighed, “Oh, to live where the flowers can grow!

10 Where nothing is frozen, where waterfalls flow,

where the rays of the sun set my feathers aglow,
where I feel warm and cozy from head to my toe.”

So Mo packed his bags and announced, “Cheerio!
I’ll miss you all so, but I really must go.”

15 Now he lives on a hot beach in Acapulco,

where he basks every day in the sun’s summer glow.

Jane Morris Udovic. (2021, December 8). “The Penguin Who Didn’t Like Snow”: A poem by Julie Anna Douglas. Cricket Media. Company via Newsela (Ed.
Newsela Staff. Version MAX). Retrieved from https://newsela.com/view/ckwmieco300063e65rkxdz4v9/?levelId=ckwmiecv404uc098fayjf0f4m.

​*Do as interactive whiteboard

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From Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf
by Roald Dahl

​Characters:

Setting:

Rising action

Climax/Conflict

Falling action

Resolution

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Draw

Analyze the question and each answer choice.

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Multiple Choice

What was the speaker’s main conflict in the poem?

• The main conflict in the poem was that  Little Red Riding Hood encounters the wolf that ate her grandmother, and who has a sinister plan to eat her.

• The main conflict in the poem was that Little Red Riding Hood encounters the wolf that helped her grandmother, and who has a simple plan to help her.

• The main conflict in the poem was that Little Red Riding Hood encounters the wolf that found her grandmother, and who has a sinister plan to eat her.

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When is the speaker’s main

conflict resolved?

1. Put your book away in you binder,

2. leave the plot diagram on your desk,

3. put your binder on the shelf,

4. move your computer so that your screen does not face your partner,

5. turn your plot diagram over so that the clean side is up,

6. stay in your seat and raise your hand.

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​How does the speaker's curiosity contribute to the rising and falling action of the poem? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.

​The speaker's curiosity contributes to the rising and falling action of the poem because _________________________. I know because the poem said ________ in stanza ___ line ___.

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Given a poem, SW
analyze plot elements in
a narrative poem,
including the rising
action, climax, falling
action, and resolution
correctly at least 4 of 6
questions.

​​When you finish:
1. close your laptop
2. put any loose paper in your binder
3. put your device under your basket
4. gather your graded free response
5. continue working quietly on your weekly review, grammar goblin, homework, journal work, or read the book of the month until the timer goes off.

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