ENG 1D1 Thursday February 26th, 2015

Meme of the Day

Today’s Agenda Grammar - Prepositional Phrases Take Up Grammar PPEC Paragraph Writing Assignment Plot Graph and Terms Plot Video Review “Lifted” Video Conflict Terms “One Man Band” Video

Grammar Answers With the person/people directly beside you share the phrases you have found in the world search. Question: What purpose do prepositions and prepositional phrases serve in a sentence? Finally: Make a new sentences with your favourite prepositional phrase on the worksheet

Plot We are now working on plot. Fill in the blanks on your worksheet. Plot: The main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.

The Plot Graph Many stories have a similar plot outline and contain the same sequence of events. One model of this is the linear plot graph.

Exposition: Part of the story that introduces important information you need to know in order to understand the story: setting characters protagonist antagonist background of characters previous events

Initial Conflict This is where the protagonist encounters their first problem or obstacle also known as the inciting incident or trigger incident further problems have a snowball effect and lead to the climax of the plot

Rising Action A series of conflicts that build toward the climax, or point of greatest interest think of this as the uphill battle(s) the protagonist must face usually creates suspense or excitement for the reader

Climax This is the turning point in the story highest point of intensity or drama this is the epic battle scene or tragic death etc. the point of no return, so the plot must start to work towards a resolution after this

Falling Action Starts to resolve the problem(s) that the protagonist encounters Occurs after the climax Can happen quite quickly at the end of the story Starts to tie up loose ends

Resolution The final closing and clarification of the dramatic or narrative plot Ties up all loose ends has a clear solution to the climax should leave the reader feeling satisfied with the events of the story

A Quick Review of Plot

Let’s Examine Plot Identify each aspect of the plot: Exposition: Trigger Incident: Rising Action: Climax: Falling Action: Resolution:

Let’s Examine Plot Exposition: 3 characters - sleeping man, the trainee and the examiner space ship, middle of nowhere country property, both inside and outside the house as well as the interview of the UFO Trigger Incident: UFO arrives and unsuccessfully attempts to extract the sleeping man Rising Action: the trainee makes several more attempts to extract the sleeping man Climax: the trainee almost succeeds at extracting the sleeping man but gets over-confident and the sleeping man nearly falls to his death Falling Action: The examiner takes the controls and sets everything right The trainee is depressed as he has failed Resolution: The examiner feels badly for the trainee and lets him drive, resulting in a humourous crash, destroying the country house. But, the sleeping man remains asleep and the UFO flys away

Types of Conflict in Plot There are two main kinds of Conflict INTERNAL and EXTERNAL Each kind of conflict also has sub-categories or types of conflict EXTERNAL INTERNAL Person vs. Person - Person vs. Self Person vs. Society Person vs. Technology/Machine Person vs. Nature Person vs. Supernatural/Fate (Click on the image to go to the conflict powerpoint)

Let’s Apply Our Knowledge of Conflict What kind of conflict is evident in this clip? How do you know? What type(s) of conflict exist in this clip?

All paragraphs are due in hardcopy Monday March 2nd Homework: TYPE up your Outline & PRINT it for tomorrow’s class 12 pt Times New Roman (NO Ariel) Double Spaced Put your name on it Make a Title All paragraphs are due in hardcopy Monday March 2nd