Wednesday Plot

In Rising Action, the main character tries to solve the conflict multiple times and fails multiple times. 

What is the correct sequence for the Rising Action? 

• alien loses patience and tries a bunch of switches at once; human flies all over house

• alien tries a switch and human flies sideways

• alien looks at manual and gets the human out of the house, rear-end first through the window; human gets caught in tree

• alien confidently chooses a switch, changes its mind, chooses another switch, and human flies into the ceiling

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CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

The exposition introduces the setting: the time and the place. What is the exposition for this short? 

• • a house in the country at night

  
  

• • an abandoned farm

  
  

• • a village

  
  

• • day time, middle of nowhere

  
  

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

What is the conflict? 

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• The human wants to sleep, but he is having a nightmare of getting abducted. 

  
  

• The little alien has bad vision and cannot control the switchboard. 

  
  

• The human wants to sleep, but it keeps gettting disturbed by an alien. 

  
  

• • The little alien wants to pass a test in abducting a human, but it is bad at controlling the switches and navigating. 

  
  

The climax is the most suspenseful part of a story/the turning point. It is often debatable. There are 2 possible climaxes: 

1) When the human finally gets pulled out of the window

2) When the human is accidentally let free from the force field and begins plummeting towards Earth. 

Which one do you think is the climax and why? Explain your Reasoning. 

What is the resolution? Describe the scene. 

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9