1. Welcome to Language Arts
Conflict
Please come in and sit down, sharpen pencils, take out binders.

2. Heading: Adjectives Warm Up 10/6/14- Writing Section
An adjective is a word that describes a noun.
List as many adjectives as you can.

3. Conflict Word Splash-
Use the materials on your desk to make a word splash for the word- Conflict.
Write the word in the center and fill the paper up with everything you “know” about the word.
Definition
Examples
Synonyms
Antonyms
We will discuss them as a class.

4. Literary Conflict

5. Conflict
In a story, conflict is the struggle between opposing forces.

6. Protagonist
The main character

7. The character in conflict with the main character
Antagonist
The character in conflict with the main character

8. External Conflict takes place outside of the body

9. There are three types of external conflict:
Man vs. Man
Man vs. Nature
Man vs. Society

10. The struggle is between two or more characters (people) in the story.
Man vs. Man
The struggle is between two or more characters (people) in the story.

11. External
Man vs. Nature
This type of conflict pits a story's main character or characters against a natural force such as a flood, predatory animal, or disease epidemic.

12. Man Against Society External
In many stories, the protagonist battles against element of government or culture.

13. Internal Conflict takes place inside of the body/mind.

14. There is one type of internal conflict.

15. Man vs. Self
The struggle or opposition is within one character--making a tough decision, for example. A character struggling to overcome fear, addiction, emotional damage or other crippling personal issue.

16. Internal
Man vs. Self
Some literary conflicts take the form of a character struggling to overcome fear, addiction, emotional damage or other crippling personal issue.

17. Practice
Decide what type of conflict is being illustrated in the following pictures

18. 1. Man vs. ?

19. 2. Man vs. ?

20. 3. Man vs. ?

21. 4. Man vs.

22. 5. Man vs. ?

23. 6. Man vs. ?

24. 7. Man vs. ?

25. Practice- Carousel Walk
Now that you have mastered pictures, let’s try some text!
Travel around the room and read the passages.
On the chart, identify the type of conflict in each passage.

26. 1. Man vs. ? “If she had only proceeded more slowly.
If she had only taken the Southerly route, avoiding the icebergs. If only the watch had had a pair of binoculars.”
(news story about the Titanic)

27. 2. Man vs. ?
Charles decided to break all the rules the day he decided to steal that car. He was immediately arrested and sent to jail to await his trial. He should have known better than to mess with the “rules.”

28. 3. Man vs. ?
“I don’t care who you talk to!” screamed Sarah to West. “I just wish I had never met you!”

29. 4. Man vs. ?
After the light in the cave was completely gone Tom began to stumble through the cave blindly cutting his hands on what appeared to be sharp rocks.

30. 5. Man vs. ?
Tom found a dry spot to sit down in the dark and began to feel guilty over an argument he had had earlier in the day with his mother in which he had said, “I hope I never see you again!”

31. 6. Man vs. ?
Even though her friends tried to peer pressure her into leaving, Allison chose to stay and help the teacher clean up the mess.

32. The hurricane reached land and knocked out several houses in its path.
7. Man vs. ?
The hurricane reached land and knocked out several houses in its path.

33. 8. Man vs. ?
The man on the bus was yelling at the bus driver for not getting him to his destination on time.

34. 9. Man vs. ?
Tom’s mother was upset that he wanted to skip going to college in order to go exploring in all of the world’s greatest caves before he turned thirty. Tom didn’t understand what the big deal was and wanted to run his own life.

35. 10. Man vs. ?
Matt believed that his friends were mean when they picked on the new student on her first day in their school. He chose to walk away.

36. Ticket Out
What conflicts did you see in All Summer in a Day? Explain.

37. Welcome to Language Arts
Conflict
Please come in and sit down, sharpen pencils, take out binders.

38. Heading: Vocabulary Review (reading section)
Review the vocabulary words by filling in the blanks with the correct words.

39. How does setting affect conflict?
Talk with your partner, share good answers.

40. How does setting affect conflict?
Man vs. Nature
This type of conflict pits a story's main character or characters against a natural force such as a flood, predatory animal, or disease epidemic.

41. How does setting affect conflict?
Setting can impact the characters in the story, which can then cause conflict.
Think about hot days in a classroom- conflicts arise more, because of the setting.

42. Settings- Groups
In your groups you will be given an example of a type of setting.
YOU are going to write the conflicts that could arise based on the setting.
This is like prewriting for a story.
Work together to use the setting examples and think of problems that could come out of that setting.

43. Setting 1- The Town Dump
"We hunted old bottles in the dump, bottles caked with dirt and filth, half buried, full of cobwebs, and we washed them out at the horse trough by the elevator, putting in a handful of soap along with the water to knock the dirt loose; and when we had shaken them until our arms were tired, we hauled them off in somebody's coaster wagon and turned them in

44. Setting 2- Land of Little Water
This is the nature of that country. There are hills, rounded, blunt, burned, squeezed up out of chaos, chrome and vermilion painted, aspiring to the snowline. Between the hills lie high level-looking plains full of intolerable sun glare, or narrow valleys drowned in a blue haze. The hill surface is streaked with ash drift and black, unweathered lava flows.

45. Setting 3- Eerie Forrest
"There was a cool breeze whistling through the tree branches overhead. The light of the moon poked through in splotches onto the rocks and pine needles scattered throughout the forest. The only sound was the wind."

46. Setting 4- Kitchen
The heavenly aroma of garlic, basil, and oregano mixed with the unmistakable yeasty scent of fresh bread and wafted on the cool air that blew in her face when she opened the door.

47. Setting 5- Fancy Living Room
The marble floors gleamed in the midday light. Blue satin fabric covered the settee, arm chairs, and chaise lounge which sat in a conversation circle near the exquisite, enormous, Egyptian-marble fireplace. The ceiling soared twenty feet above, painted a deep salmon accented by the white coving that ran along the junction of the wall and ceiling. The windows at the far end extended nearly floor to ceiling . . .

48. Ticket Out
How did the setting of All Summer in a Day help you understand the conflict?