Today’s Warm Up Enter room quietly. Using your composition notebook, write down 10 words that relate to fiction and the elements of a story. Leave the yellow textbooks in the middle of your table. SSR

Today’s Agenda SSR when you are finished. Using the Textbook, look for definitions to Unit 1 Vocabulary Terms. Look in the following areas: Unit 1 (p. 2) Literary Handbook (p.R11) You might have to look up the word in the index (p. R47) or look up the category it falls under (i.e. Elements of Plot…maybe look up “plot” in the index ) SSR when you are finished.

Unit 1 Vocabulary Terms

The speaker of the story Narrator

The perspective from which a story is told Point of View

The message about life within a story

The main character in a literary work Protagonist

A character or a force in conflict with the main character Antagonist

A struggle between opposing forces; one of the most important elements of a story Conflict

Takes place within the mind of a character Internal Conflict

One in which the character struggles against some outside force (another person, nature, etc) External Conflict

Series of events in a story Plot

A person or an animal that takes part in the action of a literary work Character

Time and Place of the action of a story Setting

Characters, Setting and Conflict are introduced; Beginning of story Exposition

Conflict develops and interest in story rises Rising Action

Turning point in the story when the protagonist faces the conflict head-on Climax

Loose ends are tied up Falling Action

Story comes to a reasonable end Resolution

The perspective of a character in a story First Person POV

The perspective of a narrator outside the story Third Person POV