1. HR Expectations Homeroom is a one way door! 9:00: time to read
You cannot leave without permission and a pass.
Get ready for the day!
9:00: time to read
You must be reading.
If your name is on the board, consider it a warning, and read!
If you get a check mark, it will cost you 2 points on your behavior card.

2. Reading Countdown
Check in
Get your IAN, please
Questions to the PL

3. Take notes as we watch…

4. Draw a plot diagram on the next page in your IAN.

5. EXPOSITION – Quiet fields & house, sleeping boy starts lifting
LIFTED
INCITING INCIDENT– Alien-in-training doesn’t know how to “lift”
MOVIE MOMENT: In the exposition, what does the mood of this farm setting feel like before the aliens arrive?
MENU
RISING ACTION – Alien boy gets more and more frustrated with his inability to “lift”
ANSWER: The feeling is calm and sleepy, the porch swing gently swinging, the weathercock shifting softly in the breeze.
CLIMAX – Alien boy gets cocky and human boy falls through hole in ship
Climax
FALLING ACTION – Alien teacher fixes everything in the house and lets alien boy drive the spaceship
RESOLUTION – Alien boy crashes spaceship and human boy is left “lifted” on a giant spire in a canyon
Rising Action
Falling Action
Inciting
Incident
Exposition
Resolution

6. Reading Class Today Create your plot diagram using Hoot.
Remember, you can have different opinions about what the stages are as long as they’re defended.