Thursday, September 12, 2013

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the narrative structure of a myth
• Apply terminology to points in a plot
• Determine plot of a narrative from TV

Opening

Large Group:
1. Discuss and Agree upon Timeline for "Daedalus and Icarus." (Stamp HW)


Small Group:2. Write the sequence of events (Timeline) for "Daedalus and Icarus).

• While you write, think about the signal words for Chronology as you retell yourself the narrative.

Large Group:3. What is the sequence of events?

• This is called "PLOT"

Small Group:
4. Mark your Timeline:

• What are the three most important events?  (Circle Them)
• Compare your choices with another pair or group and put STARS next to the events that both pairs chose as particularly important.

Large Group:

5. Which are the most important events?  Add them to your timeline if they aren't already there.

6. Which event gave you your first clue about the CONFLICT in the story? (Circle that event in your timeline)

• Label it "TURNING POINT"

7. Which event toward the end of the story was the most dramatic? (Circle that event in your timeline.)

• Label it "CRISIS POINT"

Work Period:

8. Recall a television show and sketch out the plot (5-6 events) on a timeline in your notes on reading.

• Identify the characters
• Describe the setting
• Label the TURNING POINT in the PLOT
• Label the CRISIS POINT in the PLOT

Closing:

9.  Add the following terms to your Glossary of Reading Terms.  Define and provide examples for each.

• Plot
• Turning Point
• Crisis Point

Classwork/Homework: 

10. Read Independently for 20 minutes and Identify the TURNING POINT from early in your book.

• When does the Conflict really start to show its face and affect the plot?

Small Groups:

11.  Share your knowledge of the Turning Point in your novel with a partner.

• Explain how you know.

12. Share a few with the large group.

Large Group:

13. Crisis Point in a novel?  Anyone there yet in a book you are reading?

• What happened?
• What made it so dramatic?

14. Take out the packet I handed out a few days ago.  

• Page TWO has the Narrative/Plot Structure diagram.

15. New Terms:

• Introduction/Exposition (Why these terms?)
• In a small group, review "Daedalus and Icarus"
• Identify the Introduction
• What did you learn from reading the introduction?
• What do you know about the setting?
• What do you know about the protagonist?
• What else is introduced in this section?
• How did it set you up to understand the story?
• Rising Action
• Resolution
• In small groups, identify the events in the Rising Action and the Resolution