Transcript Chapter 1: Plot and Setting

Chapter 1: Plot and Setting
•Plot and Setting
•“Just Once”
•“All Summer in a Day”
•“Suit Helps Girl Enjoy Daylight”
•“What Will Our Towns Look Like?”
Chapter 1: Plot and Setting
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Plot: the series of events in a story
Conflict: a struggle or problem
Complication: new problems come up
Climax: most exciting moment of the
story
• Resolution: final part of the story; how it
ends
• Setting: Where and when the action of a
story takes place – a story can not exist
without a setting
Plot and Conflict: “Just Once”
• Genre: short story
• Focus: conflict
– Conflict: a struggle between two opposing
views or situations
• Skill: retelling
– Retelling: recall the conflict and the most
important events in the plot
Setting: “All Summer in a Day”
• Genre: short story
• Focus: setting
– Setting: the place and time of the story.
• Skill: making inferences
– Making Inferences: a kind of guess; look for clues
and figure out things the author doesn’t tell you
directly
• Literary Response & Analysis
– 5. At the story’s resolution,
– 9. The setting of ________ is so important to
the plot because
Features of a Newspaper: “Suit
Helps Girl Enjoy Daylight”
• Popular Media: informational materials that
share information with the general public.
Examples: newspapers, magazines
• Features of a Newspaper:
– Sections: how the newspaper is divided. Examples:
sports, world news, weather, etc.
– Headlines: titles of the articles
– Byline: name of the reporter who wrote the article
– Dateline: name of the place where the event
happened and the date it occurred.
– Lead: the beginning of the article where the most
important information is revealed.
Structural Features of Magazines:
“What Will Our Towns Look Like?”
• Structural Features of a Magazine:
– The Cover: art and main headlines
– The Contents Page: lists articles and their
page numbers
– Magazine Articles:
• Title: catches readers attention
• Subtitle: secondary title that tells you more about
the article
• Headings: words or phrases used to break the
article into sections
• Captions: brief informational sentences printed
below illustrations.