Plotline Continued

Focus Lesson – Tuesday – 9/13Rising Action

Warm Up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1tdfucQfCo

What is the conflict in this short film?What Type of Conflict is it?

Rising Action Events or actions that develop the conflict and

Lead to the climax

Let’s Practice! – Beauty and the BeastPrince Adam was cursed to a beast form by Enchantress who saw no love in his arrogant heart for others. The one way he could break the spell was to learn to love another and earn her love in return before the last petal from his enchanted rose fell, which would bloom until his twenty-first birthday. But who could ever learn to love a beast?

Ten years later, Maurice, an inventor from a nearby village, becomes lost in the woods and seeks shelter in the Beast's castle, the Beast imprisons him for trespassing. His daughter Belle, a bookworm who dreams of life outside her provincial village, finds him trapped in the castle and offers her place in his stead. The Beast accepts with a promise she'll remain in the castle forever. In the beginning Belle views him as nothing more than a monster, he views her as difficult and stubborn. But the two soon taste the bitter-sweetness of finding you can change and learning you were wrong.

Expostion – I doSettingCharactersConflict

Rising Action – You doTurn to your partner and find three events or actions that develop the conflict and lead to the climax

Focus Lesson – Wednesday – 9/14

Warm - Up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ4Nnr0MXKY

Name all the aspects of rising action you see in this short film

climax The turning point of the action and events in the story

The most intense part of the story

Some Examples

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOhH2JFk1Ks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJnIuBl3RL0

Let’s Practice!Little Red Riding Hood’s mother tells her to

take some food to her Granny who is sick. Little Red Riding Hood meets the wolf and she tells him where she is going. The wolf goes ahead of her and eats her Granny and then waits for Little Red Riding Hood to come. Granny’s features are rather big and Little Red Riding Hood asks her why when suddenly the wolf pounces on her. Shescreams and runs away. A woodcutter kills the wolf and rescues poor Granny

Exposition – I doSettingCharactersConflict

Rising Action – You doTurn to a partner and find the event/actions leading up to the climax.

Climax – We doWith your partner, find the climax of the

storyWhere is the turning point?

Focus Lesson - Thursday – 9/15

Warm-Uphttp://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=sdUUx5FdySs

Describe the climax of this short film.

Falling Action Action or events following the climax

Moving toward the resolution

Resolution Tying up the loose ends of a story

The final stage of a story

ExamplesCasablancahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=FDhGS4EJS8M

There once was a widower who remarried. His second wife was ill-natured, and she had two daughters who were just as unpleasant as their mother. The man had a beautiful, gentle daughter of his own, and she was soon to become the servant of her evil step-mother and step-sisters. They made her do all the chores around the house, and she was named Cinderella, after the cinders she swept out of the fireplace.

The King needed to find a queen for his prince, so he threw a huge ball. The evil step-mother and step-sisters were invited, but Cinderella was not allowed to go. After they left, Cinderellaís fairy godmother appeared and changed her dirty rags into a beautiful gown with glass slippers. Next the fairy godmother changed a pumpkin into a coach and some mice into footmen. Before Cinderella left, the fairy godmother warned her to be home before midnight, because the spell would only last till then.

Cinderella was a hit at the ball. The prince fell in love with her and asked her name. Just then the clock struck midnight, and Cinderella ran away. She was in such a hurry, she lost one of her glass slippers. It was the only clue the prince had to find his true love. He went to every home in the kingdom and had every single young girl try on the slipper to see if it fit. The evil step-sisters couldnít fit the slipper, but Cinderella did. The prince married her and they all lived happily ever after.

With a Partner…plot it out!Exposition – Setting, character, conflictRising ActionClimaxFalling ActionResolution

How to Have a DiscussionEvery team member must share their

work on their role sheet and participate in the conversation

Every team member must listen to each other

How to have a discussion1. Tell what role you are.2. Tell what you did – analyzer? Vocab

master? Style master? Connector?3. Share your work – for example…

“My text-to-self connection was…”“The question I answered was….and here’s what I think…”“The word barrio means…”“One example of figurative language is…”

1. Team Leader will begin by stating the question, answering the question, and then asking the group the question. The team leader will ask the ask the mediator, the

evaluator, then the manager.They will repeat the process for the second question.They will then direct each member of when to share.

2. The mediator will then share all connections.

3. The evaluator will then share three vocabulary words.

4. The manager will then share one example of each piece language in the text.

Focus Lesson - Friday- 9/16

Warm - UpMaya Angelou reciting “Still I Rise”http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=JqOqo50LSZ0 What is poetry?What makes it different than prose

(books)?Why do people speak this way?

Poetry A genre (type) of literature

What makes it poetry different from prose?

Mainly consists of…Rhythmic patterns of words

RhymeAlliterationFigurative Language

Imagery

What makes poetry different from prose?

Does not need plot

Example