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Today’s Warm-Up
• Study the action and dialogue in each comic strip panel.
• Look for clues that would help you determine the correct order of the panels.
• Arrange your comic strip panels in order.
Today’s Warm-Up
It’s a PlotHow the Action Unfolds in a Story
Today’s Standards
LA.6.2.1.2Students will locate and analyze the elements of plot structure, including
exposition, setting, character development, rising/falling action,
conflict/resolution, and theme.
Today’s Learning Goals
• Recognize how plot structure helps readers understand the action in a story.
• Identify the five stages of a plot:– Exposition– Rising Action– Climax– Falling Action– Resolution
Out of Order?
The Story Lady was on her way to the library when she dropped all of her pages.
She tried to pick them upand put them in order.She was in a hurry andmay have made mistakes.
But the evil queen found Snow
White. She disguised herself as a
witch and tricked Snow White into
eating a poison apple.
He couldn’t do it, so he told her about the queen’s evil plan. He warned her not to return home.
Out of Order?
Snow White found a cottage with seven dwarfs living there. They said she could stay with them.
Once there was an evil queen, so jealous of her stepchild’s beauty that she ordered the girl killed.
Snow White married the Prince, went to live with him in his village, and they lived happily ever after.
One day a prince happened by, and enchanted by her beauty, kissed Snow White. She woke up!
Snow White fell into a deathlike sleep. The dwarfs watched over her day and night.
But the evil queen found Snow
White. She disguised herself as a
witch and tricked Snow White into
eating a poison apple.
He couldn’t do it, so he told her about the queen’s evil plan. He warned her not to return home.
Out of Order?
Snow White found a cottage with seven dwarfs living there. They said she could stay with them.
Once there was an evil queen, so jealous of her stepchild’s beauty that she ordered the girl killed.
Snow White married the Prince, went to live with him in his village, and they lived happily ever after.
One day a prince happened by, and enchanted by her beauty, kissed Snow White. She woke up!
Snow White fell into a deathlike sleep. The dwarfs watched over her day and night.
Out of Order?
• If the events in a story are told out of order, they don’t make sense.
• Every story follows a pattern, a specific sequence of events.
• In elementary school, you probably learned that the usual story sequence is: beginning, middle, and end.
Sequence of EventsBEGINNING
MIDDLE
END
Sequence of Events
A more sophisticated way to discuss how events occur in a story is to talk about the story’s plot.
Copy this definition :
Plot – The series of events in a story.
Stages of a Plot
Think of plot structure as a mountain.
Stages of a Plot
Most plots have five stages, detailed in the plot diagram below.
Exposition
Rising Action
Climax
Falling Action
Resolution
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Exposition – introduces the story’s characters, setting, and basic situation.
Stages of Plot
Exposition
Stages of Plot
Exposition
Rising Action
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Rising Action – events that develop and build the conflict; increase reader interest.
Stages of Plot
Exposition
Rising Action
Climax
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Climax – the turning point; where tension is the greatest
Stages of a Plot
Exposition
Rising Action
Climax
Falling Action
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Falling Action – events that result from the decision or action of the climax
Stages of a Plot
Exposition
Rising Action
Climax
Falling Action
Resolution
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Resolution – the final outcome in the story
…And they lived happily
ever after.
Guided Practice
Once upon a time there was a frog.One day when he was sitting on his
lily pad, he saw a beautiful princess sitting by the pond. He hopped in the water, swam over to her, and poked his head out of the weeds.
“Pardon me, beautiful princess,” he said in his most sad and pathetic voice. “I wonder if you could help me.”
(Continued)
Guided Practice
The princess was about to jump up and run, but she felt sorry for the frog with the sad and pathetic voice.
She asked, “What can I do to help you little frog?”
“Well,” said the frog, “I’m not really a frog, but a handsome prince who was turned into a frog by a wicked witch’s spell. The spell can only be broken by the kiss of a beautiful princess.”
(Continued)
Guided Practice
The princess thought about this for a second, then lifted the frog from the pond and kissed him – right on his warty, green frog lips.
“I was just kidding,” said the frog.The frog jumped back into the pond
and the princess wiped the frog slime off her mouth.
Guided Practice
Once upon a time there was a frog.One day when he was sitting on his
lily pad, he saw a beautiful princess sitting by the pond. He hopped in the water, swam over to her, and poked his head out of the weeds.
“Pardon me, beautiful princess,” he said in his most sad and pathetic voice. “I wonder if you could help me.”
(Continued)
Guided Practice
Once upon a time there was a frog.One day when he was sitting on his
lily pad, he saw a beautiful princess sitting by the pond. He hopped in the water, swam over to her, and poked his head out of the weeds.
“Pardon me, beautiful princess,” he said in his most sad and pathetic voice. “I wonder if you could help me.”
(Continued)
Exposition• Introduces the
characters (frog and princess)
• Introduces the setting (once upon a time, pond)
Guided Practice
Once upon a time there was a frog.One day when he was sitting on his
lily pad, he saw a beautiful princess sitting by the pond. He hopped in the water, swam over to her, and poked his head out of the weeds.
“Pardon me, beautiful princess,” he said in his most sad and pathetic voice. “I wonder if you could help me.”
(Continued)
ConflictThe frog says he needs
help
Guided Practice
The princess was about to jump up and run, but she felt sorry for the frog with the sad and pathetic voice.
She asked, “What can I do to help you little frog?”
“Well,” said the frog, “I’m not really a frog, but a handsome prince who was turned into a frog by a wicked witch’s spell. The spell can only be broken by the kiss of a beautiful princess.”
(Continued)
Rising Action• The princess discovers
the frog’s problem
Guided Practice
The princess thought about this for a second, then lifted the frog from the pond and kissed him – right on his warty, green frog lips.
“I was just kidding,” said the frog.The frog jumped back into the pond
and the princess wiped the frog slime off her mouth.
Rising Action• The princess discovers
the frog’s problem.• She decides to help
him.
Guided Practice
The princess thought about this for a second, then lifted the frog from the pond and kissed him – right on his warty, green frog lips.
“I was just kidding,” said the frog.The frog jumped back into the pond
and the princess wiped the frog slime off her mouth.
ClimaxThe frog reveals the truth.
Guided Practice
The princess thought about this for a second, then lifted the frog from the pond and kissed him – right on his warty, green frog lips.
“I was just kidding,” said the frog.The frog jumped back into the pond
and the princess wiped the frog slime off her mouth.
Falling ActionThe frog makes a quick
getaway.
Guided Practice
The princess thought about this for a second, then lifted the frog from the pond and kissed him – right on his warty, green frog lips.
“I was just kidding,” said the frog.The frog jumped back into the pond
and the princess wiped the frog slime off her mouth.
Resolution• The frog goes back to life as
usual.• The princess deals with the
fact that she kissed a frog.
Stages of a Plot
Let’s map the story on a plot diagram.
Exposition
Rising Action
Climax
Falling Action
Resolution
Exposition:A frog and a princess meet at a pond. The frog has a problem.
Rising Action:The princess
learns the frog’s problem and
decides to help.
Climax:The frog reveals
the truth. Falling Action:The frog makes a
quick getaway.Resolution:
Frog gets on with life, while the
princess deals with kissing him.
Conflict:The frog says he needs help.
Individual Assignment
• Read “The School Play” by Gary Soto (page 24).
• Identify its parts of plot.• Create a plot diagram like the ones
we working on together in class. • If you need help, look at the example
and definitions on pages 22-23.