1. Word of the Day: Abhor
My grandfather always abhorred getting a new, young colleague because he felt they didn’t know anything. Abhor (verb) means to extremely hate or dislike someone or something. Syn: hatred, disgust, repulsion, scorn

2. Literary Conflict

3. Aim: What kinds of conflicts exist in stories?
Do Now: What is a conflict?
HW: Conflict Ditto

4. Man vs
Man
One character has a problem with one or more of the other characters.

5. Man vs
A character has a problem with some natural occurrence: a snowstorm, an avalanche, the bitter cold, or any other element of nature.
NATURE

6. Man vs
Society
A character has a problem with some element of society: the school, the law, the accepted way of doing things, etc.

7. Man vs
self
A character struggles with himself over what to choose.

8. Man vs
Technology
A character has to confront technology or other elements of human creation (as opposed to natural or divine creation).

9. The Supernatural Man vs
A character has to deal with something out of the ordinary that doesn’t follow “human” laws (ghosts, vampires, Phantoms, etc).

10. Man vs
FATE
A character has to battle what seems to be an uncontrollable problem. Whenever the problem seems to be a strange or unbelievable coincidence, fate can be considered the cause of the conflict.