Short Stories

What is a narrative?

• A story usually used to entertain the reader

• Something you find in a magazine

• A maths sum

• A non fiction text

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RL.5.10

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.10

What is the basic plot structure of a narrative?

• Climax, resolution, orientation, complication

• Orientation, climax, complication, resolution

• Orientation, complication, climax, resolution

• Resolution, climax, complication, orientation

Where do the rising and falling actions sit in the plot structure?

• They don’t belong in short stories

• I’ve never heard them before

• The beginning and end

• During the complication and after the climax

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

The Orientation does what?

• Sets the scene

• Tells us who the characters are

• Identifies where the story takes place

• Might even tell us when the story happened

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

What is the complication?

• The intense and exciting part

• This is the dilemma or problem that set off events

• When things get complicated

• The end of the story

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

The climax is (6 words)

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

The resolution is

• The ending where the complication in solved

• The beginning of a story

• The ending or the final outcome

• In the middle

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

A conflict is

• Not real

• Either external or internal

• A fight

• The struggle between 2 forces

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3