October 4

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting (The narrator was running late and just showed up to a story already in progress.  S/he doesn't know who the heroes and villains are or even what genre the story is.)
• Review story elements and plot graph.
• Find the story elements and pieces of the plot in The Elves and the Shoemaker.

Class Review

Story Elements

• Plot:  What happens in a story
• Character(s):  Who the story is about
• Setting:  When and where a story takes place.  The setting can be very specific (June 10, 2018 in New Gloucester, Maine) or general (Long ago and far away).
• Theme:  Ideas from the real world that are present in a story (We will not be focusing on this element this year!)

Plot (See Chart)

• Exposition:  Introduction to the characters and setting.  What is normal in the world of the story.
• Inciting Incident:  The problem is introduced.  The reset of the story is spent trying to solve this problem.
• Rising Action:  The characters try to solve the problem presented by the inciting incident.  Most of the story is rising action.
• Climax:  Often the most exciting part of a story.  The correct solution to the problem is presented.
• Falling Action / Resolution:  The problem is solved.  The characters actively solve the problem.
• Denouement:  The problem is solved and the characters resume their lives (assuming they survived the story).