Black Cowboys, Wild Horses

What does plot mean?

• a sequence of events in a story

• a problem between two characters

• the lessons the reader understands

• the time and place of a story

What is the exposition of a story's plot?

• the most exciting part

• when problems are solved

• the beginning: characters and setting are introduced

• the problem that starts the story's action

What is the setting?

• the people or animals in a story

• the time and place of events

• the problem or challenge

• the lesson a reader understands

What is the climax of the story?

• the problem of the story

• how the problem is solved

• the time and place a story takes place

• the turning point; often the most exciting point

What is the conflict?

• events that lead to the most exciting part

• the most exciting part

• the sequence of events in the story

• the problem or challenge

Where does this story take place both at the beginning and end?

• on a cliff by a corral

• on a treeless plain

• by a small frontier town

• in a dream that the main character has

Bob can't read but what can he do well?

• read animal tracks

• ride a horse

• send messages

• he can write messages using pictures

How does Bob take control of the herd?

• Warrior fights and defeats the stallion

• he puts a rope around the stallions neck

• he kills the rattlesake

• he leads the horses into a lake during a storm and traps them

"But he needed the smell of sun, moon, stars, and wind before the mustangs would accept him."  What does this mean?

• He needed to go camping.
• He liked looking at the sky.
• The mustangs like people who enjoy the outdoors.
• The mustangs would only accept him if didn't smell like a person.

What is Bob's job at the ranch?

• to round of herds of wild mustangs

• to find the lost colt

• finding pastureland for herds of horses

• to find an injured stallion