Plot elements: focusing on the middle

True or False:

We are introduced to the problem in the middle of the story.

• True

• False

• Maybe

This is the longest part of plot. Characters are stressed, complications happen.

• Beginning

• Middle

• End

What does plot mean?

• a sequence of events in a story

• a problem between two characters

• the lesson the reader understands

• story events in random order

When does the action takes place?

• At the end

• During the middle

• At the beginning

I am mostly the body of the story?

• the beginning

• the middle

• the end

A story has _______, _______ and _______.

• beginning, middle, end

• beginning, up, end

• beginning, middle, down

• story, middle, end

What happens in the middle of Stellaluna?

• An owl attacks mother bat and Stellaluna

• Stellaluna is a bat.

• Stellaluna is raised by birds.

What happens in the middle of the story, "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs?"

• A flapjack landed on Henry's head

• We learned the story of the town of Chew and Swallow

• A Hurricane of food flooded Chew and Swallow

• The people abandoned Chew and Swallow for a safer place to live.