1. Craft and Structure
Objective
Students will be able to compare and contrast the plot structure of two or more texts and analyze how the different plot structures of each text contributes to the creation of mystery, tension, or surprise.

2. Craft and Structure

3. Flip Slips How can text structure create suspense? Anticipation
Practice STEPS TO Skill or Problem
How can text structure create suspense?
STEP PREP Procedures
Skill Language
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Vocab Breakdown
Prior Knowledge
Textual Evidence
Anticipation
(1 Practice Problem Before Procedures )

4. Skill Focus The skill for this week is......
Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise. Analyze how a drama’s or poem’s form or structure (e.g., soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning. Compare and contrast the structure of two or more texts and analyze how the differing structure of each text contributes to its meaning and style.

5. Skill Focus In other words,
Break down how an author’s structure creates mystery, surprise, and tension.

6. Copy the following words:
Vocabulary
Copy the following words:
Plot
Mystery
Surprise
Tension
Structure
Soliloquy
Sonnet

7. Vocabulary Strategy: Word Analysis
Under “My Definition,” write the definition for each word. Next, use the word in a sentence. Below “My Definition” under “Synonym” write two words that are similar to the vocabulary word. Finally, under “Antonym” write two words that are opposite.

8. Vocabulary Plot: The sequence of events that make up a story
Order: the sequence of events (ex. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th)
Mystery: Details of text that is difficult or hard to explain.

9. Vocabulary Surprise : an unexpected event.
Tension: Conflict between characters or self within a story.
Structure:the arrangement of elements into a pattern of organization.

10. Vocabulary
Soliloquy: a dramatic speech that represents a series of unspoken thoughts.
Sonnet: a poem of 14 lines usually rhyming by a fixed scheme.

11. Prior Knowledge Have you ever seen a movie with a flashback scene?
How did it enhance the story line?
What did it leave unknown?

12. Anticipatory Set
Read the following excerpt. How does the text structure help to propel this narrative poem?

13. Anticipatory Set
Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, Whene’er I passed her; but who passed without Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands As if alive.
- Excerpt from “My Last Duchess” Robert Browning

14. Steps Step 1 Read the 1st assigned text Step 2
Identify the characters within the text?
Step 3
What is the plot structure of the 1st text?

15. Steps Step 4 How do you know this is the plot structure? Step 5
Read the 2nd assigned text
Step 6
Identify the characters within the 2nd text?

16. Steps Step 7 What is the plot structure of the 2nd text? Step 8
How do you know this is the plot structure?

17. Steps
Step 9
How is the plot structure of text 1 different from text 2?
Step 10
How does the plot structure contribute to the suspense or mystery in the plot in each text?

18. Steps
Step 11
Give evidence from the text to support your answer to step 10
Step 12
Describe how the plot structure affects the character development in each text.

19. Steps
Step 13
What event contributed the most to the plot structure creating mystery, tension, or surprise within both texts

20. Steps
Step 14
What do you think was the author’s purpose in choosing each plot structure?

21. Textual Evidence
Read the following excerpt. How does the text structure help to propel this narrative poem?

22. Textual Evidence
Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, Whene’er I passed her; but who passed without Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands As if alive.
- Excerpt from “My Last Duchess” Robert Browning

23. Textual Evidence
This text using flashbacks to help build the backstory of the duchess. Through this excerpt we know that the Duke does not like how friendly and open his wife was, which leads us to the suspense of what has happened. We learn that the Duke commanded her to be killed due to her indiscriminate kindness.

24. Flip Slip: What do you Remember?
Remember: Rewrite this week’s skill in your own words.
In your own words, define the vocabulary words from this week.

25. Flip Slip: What do you understand?
Understand: Write the steps in chronological order.
1. Describe how the plot structure affects the character development in each text.
2. What is the plot structure for the first reading?
3. What event contributed the most to the plot structure creating mystery, tension, or surprise within both texts?
4. What is the plot structure of the 2nd text?

26. Apply
Follow steps 1-14 using the assigned readings.