Journal Entry – Free Write 8/25

It is your first journal entry of the year (YAY!! I feel your excitement) and I am deciding to let you write on anything that you would like.

It must be at least a half a page long and proper grammar to receive full credit.

Short Stories: Plot and Setting

Plot: What’s Happening?

Plot: a series of events that are occurring in a story

Occur in books, movies, TV shows, etc.4

Plot can be mapped in Freytag’s Pyramid

Parts of Freytag’s Pyramid Exposition: part of the story in which the basic situation is outlined and

the characters and main conflict are introduced; basically the introduction to the story.

Rising Action: chain of events that takes place as the main character struggles to achieve his or her goal

Climax: the point of highest emotional intensity; sometimes the point at which we learn the outcome of the conflict.

Falling Action: series of events in which the conflict is starting to get solved

Denouement/Resolution: events following the climax and falling action in which any remaining issues are resolved.

Conflict

Struggle or clash between opposing characters, forces or emotions

2 Basic Types of Conflict

Internal: created when the main character undergoes an emotional struggle. It is within the character’s own mind and heart.

Character vs. Self

External: created when a person or outside force prevents the main character from achieving his or her goal.

Character vs. Character (Ex: Harry Potter vs. Voldemort)

Character vs. Nature (Ex: A mountain climber vs. a blizzard)

Character vs. Society (Hunger Games Katniss vs. the Capitol)

Sometimes a story’s action is interrupted in order to tell of events that took place in the past.

Flashback: any scene that presents events that happen before the main time frame of a story.

Use: story tellers provide us with background about the main events of a story or share a character’s past.

Do you have an example?

Flashback

Foreshadowing & Suspense

Foreshadowing is the use of clue to predict on what is or may happen in a story

Suspense is the feeling of uncertainty or anxiety about what is going to happen next

Setting & Mood

The time period and place in which the action of a story takes place.

Setting can also be determined by mood

Mood is the atmosphere a writer creates that affects the way we feel as readers.

Exit Journal 8/25

Tell me five things you learned about short stories today and how they affect/enhance a story.

Prediction - 5 points 8/26

The title of the short story we are going to read is “Contents of a Dead Man’s Pocket.”

Give me a prediction of what this story may be about.

You can write at least 3 sentences

Vocabulary – “Contents of a Dead Man’s Pocket “

Projection: n. something that juts out from the surface

Discarding: v. used as an adj. abandoning; getting rid of

Confirmation: n. proof

Exhalation: n. something breathed out; breath

Imperceptibly: adv. In such a slight way as to be most unnoticeable

Rebounded: v. bounced back

Interminable: adj. endless

Irrelevantly: adv. In a way not relating to the point or situation

Incomprehensible: adj. not understandable

Unimpeded: adj. not blocked; unobstructed

What Have we Seen? 10 points 8/26

Tell me the parts of Freytag’s Pyramid we have seen in the story so far. Give me a summary of the parts that correlate to Freytag’s Pyramid.

What is Important to you? 5 points 8/27

In “CoaDMP”, we have met our protagonist, Tom, as he is trying to save his yellow paper from falling from the ledge. What is something you hold as a prized possession and would do anything to save? A family heirloom? A specific picture? Your childhood teddy bear?

Describe what this item may be and why it is so important to you.

Vocab Development – 5 points 8/27

Complete the following Vocabulary Square for 4 of the vocabulary words we learned yesterday. Try picking ones you do not completely understand!

Vocabulary Word

Write definition in this square

Write a synonym

Write an antonym

Write a sentence using the vocabulary word correctly