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\nExpress Yourself Lesson Seed 12: Story Event\n

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\nFocus on plot and the impact-specific events in The Cay. Class members use their double-entry journals, created in a previous lesson in this series, to record their thinking about the guiding question as they read chapters 15 through 17....\n
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\nMy Favorite Story\n

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\nStudents discuss their favorite book. In this book discussion lesson, students name the title and tell what makes the book special. Students also review the setting, plot, conflict, and resolution. Students make a book that tells all of...\n
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\nWhat Makes a Novel a Novel?\n

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\nThey always say to write what you know. This approach is used to get middle schoolers prepared to write novels of their own. Using a favorite book as a model, potential novelists respond to prompts that ask about characters, plot, main...\n
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\nIntroduce: Prediction\n

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\nWhat will happen next? Leave readers at a cliffhanger as they practice prediction strategies while listening to a story. Pupils start by making guesses based on the book's cover and title, discussing the techniques they use to make these...\n
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\nHanging Out with Stories\n

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\nHelp your class listen and respond to a fictional story by creating a story structure mobile illustrating the main characters, setting, plot, problem, story events, and solution. Using a coat hanger, they will create an artistic element...\n
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\nCreate a Playbill!\n

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\nSeventh graders explore the various elements found in the advertisement of a dramatic experience. Playbills are created that reflect the plot without revealing the climax of the play. Costumes, set construction, and character description...\n
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\nHollywood Magic-The Dream Factory Recreates the Novel\n

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\nThe Great Gatsby, The Jungle and study HRC's Teaching the American Twenties-The Dream Factory are the focus of this lesson, Your learners will rewrite a small scene from the novel into a dramatic film scene and then create a modern...\n
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\nStory Stew\n

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\nStudents identify the elements of a story. In this reading and writing lesson, pupils read the book, Tyrone the Horrible by Hans Wihelm and then identify the characters, setting, and plot of the story.This lesson includes adaptations and...\n
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\nScene Plotting Worksheet\n

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\nThink about literary elements, characters, and point-of-view. Then click on this link to have your class answer 14 questions intended to solidify, test, or review their understanding.\n
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\nThe Cay by Theodore Taylor\n

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\nRecord the plot elements of The Cay on this learning exercise. Pupils note basic information about the book and answer questions about the introduction, point of view, character, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and...\n
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\nAunt Isabel Tells a Good One...\n

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\nExplore language arts by reading two similar stories in order to compare and contrast them in class. Young readers read two Aunt Isabel books, by Kate Duke, and discuss the main characters, plot, and setting. They complete a graphic...\n
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\nScripting a Crime Drama\n

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\nDevelop novice script-writers. Small groups sift through a sample script, noting any script-writing conventions to share with the whole class. Using these conventions and plot structures, these groups compose a script for a 10-minute...\n
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\nCause & Effect Chart: \"My Furthest-Back Person\" by Alex Haley \n

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\nHelp your class see the connection between events in Alex Haley's story \"My Furthest-Back Person\" with this awesome graphic organizer. Individuals write a brief description of 10 major plot events in a series of boxes. The first and last...\n
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\nSong of the Trees by Mildred Taylor\n

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\nExplore the literary elements of Mildred Taylor's Song of the Trees with this beautiful Prezi presentation. Focusing on the story's characters, setting, and major plot points, young readers are provided with a complete summary of...\n
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\nStory Elements that Support the Theme\n

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\nThree great graphic organizers guide readers to see how the elements of plot and main idea can be charted to reveal the theme of a story. Model the process on the provided Direct Teaching Teacher Graphic Organizer using Aesop’s The...\n
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\nWhich Story Matches the Given Theme?\n

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\nModel for young learners how to determine the theme of a story. Read aloud Aesop’s The Fox and the Stork. Chart the plot and the main idea of the fable, showing class members how these elements support the theme. Fable titles for...\n
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\nTo Kill a Mockingbird Study Guide Part II\n

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\nFocus your class's reading of To Kill a Mockingbird with this resource. Eighty-three questions are provided for chapters 12-31, the majority of which focus on plot recall. Since this is a word document, you can consider adding questions...\n
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\nThe Crucible Quiz\n

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\nCheck that your class is keeping up with and understanding the reading with this straightforward reading check quiz for Act I of Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible. There are 25 questions total, which cover characters, plot recall,...\n
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\nParts of a Narrative Poster Series\n

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\nYour classroom won't be complete without a set of posters that can help learners hone in on the parts of a narrative story. Each of the six printable images is in full color and come with a definition and images that learners can use to...\n
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\nPlot Summary for Story Elements\n

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\nNinth graders identify story elements utilizing a plot summary organizer. In this plot summary lesson, 9th graders discuss the elements of a good story and listen to the story of the three little pigs. Students complete a group plot...\n
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\nPlot Structure\n

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\nNinth graders review the parts of a plot sequence for a short story. They think of a famous Disney movie and plot the events of the movie in the correct plot sequence. They do the same for a comic strip, labeling the exposition, rising...\n
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\nPlot with More Than One Problem\n

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\nEvery good story has a plot, and every good plot contains a conflict or problem. Third graders familiarize themselves and identify how problems in a story are connected. First as a class and then in small groups or individually, learners...\n
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\nStar Wars and the Hero's Journey\n

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\nIs Luke Skywalker the archetype of a literary hero? Follow the path of the Hero's Journey with an engaging activity that details the plot structure, applies it to Star Wars: A New Hope, and invites class members to choose their own...\n
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\nComparing Themes and Plots: \"Young Goodman Brown\" and \"The Minister's Black Veil\"\n

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\nStudents read two stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne and write an essay comparing plots and themes. In this Nathaniel Hawthorne short stories lesson, students read \"Young Goodman Brown\" and \"The Minister's Black Veil.\" After a class...\n
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