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Get out your Preposition Crossword Puzzle. Make sure your answers are on the back.
Make sure you have your Interactive Writing Notebook (Composition Notebook) with you!

2. Internal & External Conflict

3. Conflict A struggle between opposing forces or characters
Without conflict, a story would be BORING!
A story can have SEVERAL conflicts.
The MAIN conflict is central to the plot and is usually RESOLVED by the RESOLUTION.

4. CONFLICTS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nuoxJyUdfQ

6. Write Behind the Internal Conflict Door
Takes place inside a character’s mind or heart
Sometimes involves a decision

7. Write Behind the External Conflict Door
Takes place between a character and something outside the character.
Outside forces=nature, an event/situation, or another character

8. Four Types of Conflict

9. Man Vs. Self Internal
A struggle between a character and his feelings, conscience, or fear.

10. Man Vs. Man External
A Struggle, mental or physical, between two characters
Other character may be the antagonist

11. Man Vs. Nature External
A struggle between a character and mother nature
Mother nature=weather, animals, insects, sickness, epidemics

12. Man Vs. Society External
A struggle between a character and the laws or beliefs of a group
Could involve poverty, politics, social norms, expectations, or values