INTERLOPERS BY SAKI

1. INTERLOPERS BY SAKI

2. BELL RINGER • Identify if you agree or disagree with the statement on the butcher paper on the board. • Use the stickers to make your vote. • Make sure you answer all 6. • We will discuss as a class when everyone has voted.

3. Serious arguments can begin with trivial matters.

4. People who quarrel for a long time often forget why they started fighting in the first place.

5. Arguments always weaken over time.

6. When arguing you should never show weakness.

7. If you apologize first , it shows you are wrong.

8. Revenge is the best way to settle an argument.

9. Literary Conflict

10. Conflict • In a story, conflict is the struggle between opposing forces.

11. Protagonist • The main character

12. Antagonist • The character in conflict with the main character

13. External Conflict takes place outside of the body External

14. External There are three types of external conflict

15. Man vs. Man The struggle is between two or more characters in the story.

16. External Man vs. Nature This type of conflict pits a story's main character or characters against a natural force such as a flood, predatory animal, or disease epidemic.

17. External Man Against Society In many stories, the protagonist battles against element of government or culture.

18. Internal Internal Conflict takes place inside of the body/mind.

19. Internal • There is one type of internal conflict.

20. Man vs. Self The struggle or opposition is within one character--making a tough decision, for example. A character struggling to overcome fear, addiction, emotional damage or other crippling personal issue.

21. Internal Man vs. Self Some literary conflicts take the form of a character struggling to overcome fear, addiction, emotional damage or other crippling personal issue.

22. Practice Decide what type of conflict is being illustrated in the following pictures

23. 1. Man vs. ?

24. Answer: • MAN VS NATURE

25. 2. Man vs. ?

26. Answer: • MAN VS SELF

27. 3. Man vs. ?

28. ANSWER: • MAN VS MAN

29. 4. Man vs.

30. ANSWER: • MAN VS SOCIETY

31. 5. Man vs. ?

32. ANSWER: • MAN VS NATURE

33. 6. Man vs. ?

34. ANSWER: • MAN VS SOCIETY

35. 7. Man vs. ?

36. ANSWER: • MAN VS MAN

37. Practice Now that you have mastered pictures, let’s try some text!

38. 8. Man vs. ? “If she had only proceeded more slowly. If she had only taken the Southerly route, avoiding the icebergs. If only the watch had had a pair of binoculars.” (news story about the Titanic)

39. ANSWER: • MAN VS NATURE

40. 9. Man vs. ? Charles decided to break all the rules the day he decided to steal that car. He was immediately arrested and sent to jail to await his trial. He should have known better than to mess with the “rules.”

41. ANSWER: • MAN VS SOCIETY

42. 10. Man vs. ? “I don’t care who you talk to!” screamed Sarah to Wes. “I just wish I had never met you!”

43. ANSWER: • MAN VS MAN

44. 11. Man vs. ? After the light in the cave was completely gone Tom began to stumble through the cave blindly cutting his hands on what appeared to be sharp rocks.

45. ANSWER: • MAN VS NATURE

46. 12. Man vs. ? Tom found a dry spot to sit down in the dark and began to feel guilty over an argument he had had earlier in the day with his mother in which he had said, “I hope I never see you again!”

47. ANSWER: • MAN VS SELF

48. 13. Man vs. ? Tom’s mother was upset that he wanted to skip going to college in order to go exploring in all of the world’s greatest caves before he turned thirty. Tom didn’t understand what the big deal was and wanted to run his own life.

49. ANSWER: • MAN VS MAN

50. Keep the Question Going • Have one student give an example of Man vs Man, Man vs Self, Man vs Society, or Man vs. Nature. Then have another student explain why or why not it is a good example.