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Analyzing Plot Elements: Understanding Conflict and Structure in Stories

In Lesson #12, we explore the essential components of plot analysis, focusing on the structural elements that shape storytelling. Have you ever guessed a TV show's premise within minutes or walked out of a movie due to a lack of engagement? This lesson encourages students to evaluate external and internal conflicts, understand exposition, rising action, climax, and resolution, and recognize subplots and parallel episodes. By analyzing these elements, learners will enhance their literary response skills and deepen their understanding of narrative structures.

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Analyzing Plot Elements: Understanding Conflict and Structure in Stories

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  1. Measuring Up!Lesson #12 Analyze Plot

  2. Anticipatory Set • Have you ever figured out the premise of a TV show within the first 5 minutes? • Have you ever walked out of a movie because it just doesn’t seem to be “getting good?” • Do you struggle with reading past the first 10 pages of a book?

  3. California Standard • Literary Response 8.3.2: Evaluate the structural elements of plot (e.g., subplots, parallel episodes, climax), the plot’s development, and the way in which conflicts are (or are not) addressed and resolved.

  4. Input • plot: the pattern of events in a story. • Starts with a central problem or conflict that needs to be resolved.

  5. Input • External Conflict: • between the main character and another character • between the main character and a group of characters or a community • between the main character and nature

  6. Input • Internal Conflict: • between the main character and his or her conscience • between the main character and a strong emotion that has to be overcome, such as fear

  7. Input • exposition: introduces the characters, setting, and conflict • rising action: builds the conflict and develops the characters

  8. Input • climax: shows the highest or most exciting point in the action • resolution: major problem is resolved

  9. Input • subplot: a secondary or less important plot • parallel episode: storyline that exists side by side with the main story

  10. Input

  11. Input • chronological order: order in which things happened • foreshadowing: hinting at something that will happen later • flashback: look to the past.

  12. Modeling Literary Response & Analysis Journal • Plot Page: • Captain Kidd on the Raritan Bay: The Legend of Captain Kidd

  13. Check forUnderstanding Literary Response & Analysis Journal • Plot Page: • Captain Kidd on the Raritan Bay: The Legend of Captain Kidd

  14. Guided Practice Literary Response & Analysis Journal Independent Practice • Plot Page: • Captain Kidd on the Raritan Bay: The Legend of Captain Kidd

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