1. How do I identify foreshadowing within a text?

2. LITERARY ELEMENTS
Key Learning: Writers use the elements of fiction- plot, conflict, flashback, foreshadowing, setting, and theme- to create a story.

3. Flashback and Foreshadowing
Unit Essential Question: How does an author use the elements of fiction to create a story?
Concept:
Plot
Concept:
Flashback and Foreshadowing
Concept:
Theme
Lesson Essential
How do I distinguish among the 5 basic elements of plot and place them on a plot diagram?
How do I identify the four main types of conflict in a literary plot and in non-print media?
What aspects of the story should be considered when determining the setting of a story?
What clues help a reader identifiy the setting of a story?
Lesson Essential Questions:
How do I identify flashback in a passage or story?
How do I identify foreshadowing in a passage or story?
Lesson Essential Questions:
How do I recognize implied and stated theme?
Vocabulary:
Exposition ,Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution/Denouement, Complication, Conflict, Setting
Vocabulary:
Flashback
Foreshadowing
Vocabulary:
Implied Theme
Stated Theme

5. What is Foreshadowing?
Foreshadowing is a literary device in which an author drops subtle hints about plot developments to come later in the story.
You can think of foreshadowing as a way of giving the reader a chance to make a predication about what might happen next in the story.

6. Be on the look out for subtle hints of foreshadowing.
What is Foreshadowing?
Writers use a variety of techniques to give the reader/watcher hints as to what is to come:
Movies and TV Shows: music
Stories: words that give away emotions (anxious, nervous, excited, etc…)
Be on the look out for subtle hints of foreshadowing.

7. Example of Foreshadowing
"NOW, my dears," said old Mrs. Rabbit one morning, "you may go into the fields or down the lane, but don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor."
~ Beatrix Potter from The Tale of Peter Rabbit ~
What do you think might happen next?

8. Example of Foreshadowing
Sam wished he could rid himself of the sick feeling in his gut that told him something terrible was going to happen, and happen soon.
What do you think might happen next?

9. Foreshadowing Activity
Handout
Foreshadowing Activity
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10. Foreshadowing Summarizer
Ticket Out the Door
Write a “Dear Absent Student Letter”
Start the letter with “Dear Absent Student,” and explain in detail what we learned in class today.
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