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|Reading Lesson: Plot |Grade Level: 5 |
|Lesson Summary: [Core: Read. Lit.5] Students examine the elements of a plot with a graphic organizer. Students use the organizer to plot their|
|story ideas. Advanced students write a story plot that includes a scene change or flashback right before the climax. Struggling students |
|identify the elements of a plot in personal stories and familiar stories. |
|Lesson Objectives: |
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|The students will know… |
|the elements that make up a plot. |
|that characters often change by resolving conflicts. |
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|The students will be able to… |
|identify and understand plot elements. |
|compare and contrast plots. |
|use a plot organizer to write a short story. |
|Learning Styles Targeted: |
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|Visual |
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|Auditory |
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|Kinesthetic/Tactile |
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|Pre-Assessment: |
|Have students take a piece of scratch paper and write the numbers 1–4. |
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|Write on the board: beginning, middle, climax, and conclusion. Explain that these are the elements for a plot. |
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|Read each line of the Robin Hood Plot* and ask the students to write the words beginning, middle, climax, or conclusion beside the number for |
|the line you read. |
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|Review the answers with students and discuss how the story moves from one plot element to the next. |
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|Note students who have trouble identifying the elements of the plot and story order, and who are reluctant to contribute to the discussion. |
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|Materials Needed: Plot Graphic Organizer and Story Starters PowerPoint Presentation*; paper and pencils |
|Procedure: |
|Presentation |
|Tell students that they will be learning about the elements that make up a plot for a story or play. Display slide 1 of the Plot Graphic |
|Organizer and Story Starters PowerPoint Presentation OR draw the Plot Graphic Organizer on the board. |
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|Distribute the Plot Graphic Organizer to the students, and have them fill in the elements of a plot as you explain each one. When you have |
|finished explaining the plot elements, you can display slide 2 to show the correctly labeled Plot graphic organizer. |
|Beginning (often called the exposition) is where the setting and characters are introduced. |
|Middle (or Rising Action) is where the characters face a conflict or problem. |
|Climax (or Turning Point) is the high point of the story when the characters begin to solve the problem. |
|Conclusion is how the problem or conflict is resolved. |
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|Guided Practice |
|Have students identify the plot elements of these well known stories and movies: |
|Cinderella |
|Pinocchio |
|It’s a Wonderful Life |
|Huckleberry Finn |
|Mulan |
|Little Orphan Annie |
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|Next, have students suggest books and movies. Write their suggestions on the board, and have students identify the plot elements. |
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|Lead a discussion that compares and contrasts the plots students have examined. Ask students how characters change by solving their problems. |
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|Independent Practice |
|Divide the class into small groups of three. Display or project the Story Starters found on slide 3 of the Plot Graphic Organizer and Story |
|Starters PowerPoint Presentation. |
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|Have each group select one of the story starters and work together to write a plot that finishes the story. Remind students to use their Plot |
|Graphic Organizers to help plan their story. |
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|Allow time for student to present their plots to the class. |
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|Closing Activity |
|Ask students to write a sentence telling the climax of their favorite story. Use this sentence as an exit pass from class. |
|Advanced Learner |
|Materials Needed: Paper and pencils |
|Procedure: |
|Tell students that writers build excitement and suspense in their stories by adding delays just before the turning point of the story. Scene |
|changes and flashbacks are two of the techniques that writers use to build suspense. Explain that a flashback is when the story is interrupted|
|to tell events that happened in the past. Scene changes can involve what is happening to another character in another setting. Each technique |
|should add important information that builds toward the climax. Have students work together to write a plot for a story with one of these |
|suspense builders. |
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|Allow time for students to present their story to the class. |
|Struggling Learner |
|Materials Needed: Familiar stories or stories recently read in class |
|Procedure: |
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|Have a volunteer retell a story that has happened to them or someone they know. Guide students to identify the plot elements of the story. |
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|Then ask students to work individually to identify the plot elements of familiar or recently read stories. Have students tell how the |
|characters changed by solving their problem. Review and discuss their responses. |
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|Tell students to pick one plot to share with the class. |
*see supplemental resources
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