Mood, Theme, Conflict, Plot, Flashback, Figurative Language Callie McCarthy

Do Now 1.Get a buddy/partner and both share a time where you had a fight with someone. (it can be anyone) 2.Explain to your partner why that made you mad, sad, or angry. 3.Then tell your partner what you did to solve that fight.

ConflictConflict Conflict- Clash or struggle between opposing forces. Conflict can be Person vs Person, Person vs Self, Person vs Nature, Person vs Fate, and Person vs Society Person vs Person: problem with another person Person vs Self: problem with deciding what to do or think Person vs Nature: problem with a force of nature Person vs fate: problem with what seems to be uncontrollable Person vs Society: problem with laws or beliefs of a group of people Internal: Involves a struggle between a character and his inner self External: involves a struggle between a character and a force outside of him self

Identifying Conflict As we watch the following clip try to identify the type of conflict. the-grinch-stole-christmas/i-hate-christmas the-grinch-stole-christmas/i-hate-christmas The conflict in “I hate Christmas” is _____________________________________

Do you know your conflicts?

Theme Theme: universal message, what you take from the author, what the story teaches you. The theme is something you could say to anyone in the world at any time, any date, or year and it would make sense to them Example: Treat others the way you want to be treated

Identifying Theme Remember that theme is something that you can tell anyone anywhere in the world at any date time or year and it would make sense to them. Activity: get a partner and discuss the theme for The Three Little Pigs (if you have not read the The Three Little Pigs think of a book you and your partner both read)

The theme in the clip you just watched is ______________________________ ____________

Figurative Language Metaphor: comparison. Ex: The goalkeeper was a rock Simile: comparison using the words like or as. Ex: Her hair was like gold

She swims like a fish. He's as hairy as a gorilla. Peter laughs like a hyena Allow me, it's as easy as ABC Mr. John is as wise as an owl. Education is your passport to satisfying employment. He was a lion in the fight. The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas He was a tornado, blasting his way through the opposing team. My love is a red, red rose SimileMetaphor

There are metaphors and similes in songs too! There are many similes and metaphors in this song; can you identify them? perry/591991/firework.jhtml#artist= you-are.jhtml#artist= girl.jhtml#artist=

Plot Exposition: Beginning of story Rising Action: Events that move story forward Climax: Most emotional part of the story Falling Action: Events leading to the end Resolution: Conflict is resolved Exposition Rising Action Climax Falling Action Resolution

Identifying plot

Mood Mood: Feeling created in the reader which is evoked through the language of the text (how it makes you feel Examples: Happy, sad, joyful, hurt, scared, depressed, any feeling the-grinch-stole-christmas/i-hate-christmas the-grinch-stole-christmas/i-hate-christmas

Flash Back Flash Back: A jump back in time setting will change. rosa-parks-story/arrested rosa-parks-story/arrested When did the flash back occur? What did the flash back go back to?

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