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What is Action?

What is Action?. Action is all the stuff that happens in a story It can be big things (like a volcano erupting) small things (like a girl winking at a boy). What is Plot?. Plot is the structure of a story. It is all the actions of the story and the order that they are told in.

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What is Action?

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  1. What is Action? • Action is all the stuff that happens in a story • It can be big things (like a volcano erupting) small things (like a girl winking at a boy)

  2. What is Plot? • Plot is the structure of a story. • It is all the actions of the story and the order that they are told in.

  3. Action vs. Plot How do we show our understanding of the action in a story so we can develop a plotline?

  4. Story String A really good way is to create a: Story String To list the actions chronologically Read the story, “A Day’s Wait” by Ernest Hemingway (in file folder)

  5. Breaking down the story Remember to keep it simple! You are only looking for the actions in the story.

  6. Seeing the plotline The next step- Look at the story string and see how it fits onto a Freytag diagram- plotline- Don’t be afraid!

  7. Plot Components Climax: the turning point, the most intense moment; this is the most exciting or stressful part of the story Rising Action: the series of conflicts and crises in the story that lead to the climax Falling Action: all of the action which follows the climax Exposition: the start of the story, the situation before the action starts – we meet the characters and find out the setting Resolution: the conclusion, the tying together of all of the threads

  8. Turing a story string into a plotline Can you figure out how our story string would fit onto the plotline?

  9. Example:Plot of the Story “A Day’s Wait” byErnest Hemingway Climax: Dad tells boy that he will not die and that he is only confused about the temperature scale! Rising Action:tension builds as the boy overhears the doctor and thinks he will die. Falling Action:Boy is relieved and very quiet. Exposition:we meet the characters (Schatz and Dad) and find out the setting (a house where the boy is sick) Resolution: We infer that the boy recovers and all is well.

  10. Conflict Conflict is the dramatic struggle between two forces in a story. Without conflict, there is no plot.

  11. External Conflict Character vs. Character Character vs.. Nature Character vs. Society Internal Conflict Character vs. Self Types of Conflict

  12. Your next job… collecting information so we can create our own story strings Indentify a possible conflict that could enter your character's life- describe it, why it happens and why it is important. Answer this big question: How does it get fixed (resolved?) What would be the climax to this conflict. What events would lead to this climax? Come up with 3-4. Keep all of this information in your folder with your other story parts.

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