Climax!

What's the climax?

• The most exciting part!

• It comes right after the exposition.

• It's the end.

• The main character faces the big problem here.

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One more time, tell me what's important about a climax.

• It’s exciting.

• The main character faces the problem.

• Something else takes care of everything without the main character.

• It makes sense in the setting.

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Choose the best climax:

You're on a sinking ship in the middle of the ocean.

• I made it onto the very last lifeboat. As we rowed away, the ship sank.

• It was just an open porthole. We closed it.

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Choose the best climax:

Scientists have cloned dinosaurs who have broken out of their cages and want to eat the scientists.

• A volcano exploded and the dinosaurs and scientists all died.

• It was only a dream.

• The tyrannosaurus almost eats the lead scientist, but he resets the backup fences and the dinosaurs are caught.

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Choose the best climax:

A nearby dragon is eating villagers.

• A bigger dragon comes and eats him. The village is saved!.. but terrified.

• Everyone dies of the plague, so it doesn’t matter. There are no more people, or sheep, or dragons.

• The people work together to build a trap with some of their sheep. Several houses and the local church are burned, but the dragon is caught and the village is saved.

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CCSS.RL.7.3

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