Suspense

What is our driving question for this unit on suspense?

• What makes writing suspensful?

• What keeps a reader interested in a text?

• What keeps a reader anxious to keep turning the pages of a story?

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

What is foreshadowing?

• Hint to what comes later in a story

• Things the reader knows but the characters do not

• What the author lets the reader know

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is mood?

• How a reader might react to a plot or theme

• How the reader feels; what feelings are evoked by the author’s words and descriptions

• How the reader learns the actions of other characters within the story

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is suspense?

• Leaves the reader questioning the characters within a story

• How the reader feels; what feelings are evoked by the author’s words and descriptions

• Intense feeling that a reader goes through while waiting for an outcome of certain events; holding their breath and wanting more.

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Which of the following are common elements of suspense? Select ALL that apply!

• fog

• dark nights

• plot twist

• cliffhanger

• repetition

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is CEA?

• Conclusion, Example and Answer

• Claim, Evidence and Analysis

• Claim, Evaluation and Answer

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CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.W.6.1A

What is a cliffhanger?

• An idea or feeling that something may happen

• When authors provide hints or clues about something that will occur later in the story.

• Usually at the end of a story or book. Leaves you wondering.

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CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

When should you use CEA?

• To write a great paragraph

• To answer short answer or extended responses

• To develop great paragraphs for a great essay

• All of the above

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CCSS.W.6.1A

CCSS.W.6.1B

CCSS.W.6.2B

Which common element of suspense is referred to as an unknown (it, something, someone, etc.) and we don't know what "it" is?

• word referent

• foreshadowing

• plot twist

• cliffhanger

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Which technique is a completely unexpected revelation or turn of plot at the conclusion of a story or play?

• mood

• surprise ending

• theme

• plot twist

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3