1. Agenda Bell Ringer – M.U.G.Shots Narrative Technique Notes
A LOT of this will be review for you guys! 
Practice with Video Clip
General: Read Persepolis and Plot Chart
Advanced: Plot Chart for “I Am Malala”
Formative Assessment: Write the body paragraphs on your narrative outline.

2. Author’s Choices: Narrative Techniques
I can identify and analyze how an author’s choices develop the elements of a story (setting, plot, characters).
RL : Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed.

3. Narrative Techniques
Narrative techniques are the methods that authors use to tell their stories.
When analyzing a novel, it is important to identify these techniques in order to shed light on the ways in which they function in the story.

4. Narrative Techniques Setting: the time and place of a narrative
Imagery: A term used to describe an author’s use of vivid descriptions.
Imagery can refer to the literal landscape or characters described in a narrative or the theoretical concepts an author employs.
Characterization: The ways individual characters are represented by the narrator or author of a text.
This includes descriptions of the characters’ physical appearances, personalities, actions, interactions, and dialogue.
Dialogue: Spoken exchanges between characters in a dramatic or literary work, usually between two or more speakers.
Dialogue is one of the most common ways an author reveals character. The words a character uses also serve to relate the plot to the reader.

5. NARRATIVE Techniques
Conflict: a struggle between two opposing forces. It is the problem a character faces.
Internal vs. External
Complication: refers to the difficult circumstances that come about through the character's attempts to find solutions to his/her problem.

6. Narrative Technique: PLOT

7. Notes on Plot Structure
Plot Structures
Notes on Plot Structure
There are many different ways that authors can choose to structure their plot.
Here are a few:
Linear
Non-Linear
Episodic
Multiple Perspectives
Flashback is a strategy that can be used in any of these structures.
What is a flashback?
We’ll talk more about these later!

8. Linear Plot LINEAR PLOT
A linear plot structures events in chronological order.
The events depend on one another, and you have to go in order to understand the plot.

9. Narrative Techniques: Plot
Exposition: Usually located at the beginning of a text, this is a detailed discussion introducing characters, setting, background information, etc. readers might need to know in order to understand the text that follows.
Inciting Incident: The moment in which the conflict is introduced.
Rising Action: The events of the story that are moved forward by the increasing complications of the conflict of the story.
For your information:
In media res: Beginning in “the middle of things,” or when an author begins a text in the midst of action. This often functions as a way to both incorporate the reader directly into the narrative and secure his or her interest in the narrative that follows.

10. Narrative Techniques: Plot
Climax: The height of conflict and intrigue in a narrative.
This is when events in the narrative and characters’ destines are most unclear; the climax often appears as a decision the protagonist must make or a challenge he or she must overcome in order to for the narrative obtain resolution.
Falling Action: The events after the climax leading to the resolution.
Dénouement: The moment when everything becomes clear to the reader.
Resolution: When the climax and central conflicts are resolved and a resolution is found.

11. Look familiar? Climax -turning point in the story -most intense moment
Climax is when events in the narrative and characters’ destines are most unclear; the climax often appears as a decision the protagonist must make or a challenge he or she must overcome in order to for the narrative obtain resolution.
Climax
-turning point in the story
-most intense moment
Rising Action
-main events of the story developed
-main conflict developed
Falling Action
-all of the events following the turning point
Resolution
-the conclusion or ending, where the conflict is resolved.
Exposition
-Characters introduced
-Setting (includes time and Place)
Dénouement
-The moment when everything becomes clear to the reader
Inciting Incident
-Introduction of conflict

12. Practice
Let’s identify some narrative techniques utilized by an “author” in this clip, :

13. General
Read Pg
After we read, we will complete a plot chart over “The Cigarette”

14. Advanced Re-visit “I am Malala”
Fill in the plot chart with the events from her narrative.

15. Formative Assessment
Choose an outline that is appropriate for your narrative.
Event
Person or Place
Write the body paragraphs on your narrative outline.
For the body of your narrative, use the structure that is the most effective for your topic.
Be sure to follow the instructions for each paragraph.
After writing, complete the bulleted steps for show your use narrative techniques.