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How do I identify flashback in How do I identify flashback in a passage or story?a passage or story?

LITERARY LITERARY ELEMENTSELEMENTS

Key Learning: Writers use the elements of fiction- plot, conflict, flashback, foreshadowing, setting, and theme- to create a story.

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Concept:Plot

Concept:Theme

Lesson Essential •How do I distinguish among the 5 basic elements of plot and place them on a plot diagram?How do I identify the four main types of conflict in a literary plot and in non-print media?What aspects of the story should be considered when determining the setting of a story?What clues help a reader identifiy the setting of a story?

Lesson Essential Questions:

How do I identify flashback in a passage or story?How do I identify foreshadowing in a passage or story?

Lesson Essential Questions:

How do I recognize implied and stated theme?

Unit Essential Question: How does an author use the elements of fiction to create a story?

Concept:Flashback and Foreshadowing

Vocabulary: Exposition ,Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution/Denouement, Complication, Conflict, Setting

Vocabulary:FlashbackForeshadowing

Vocabulary:Implied ThemeStated Theme

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Do you know what special Do you know what special literary device is being used?literary device is being used?

What is What is Flashback?Flashback?

A flashbackA flashback is an interjected scene that is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the takes the narrative back in time from the current point the story has reached. current point the story has reached. Flashbacks are often used to recount Flashbacks are often used to recount

events that happened prior to the events that happened prior to the story’s primary sequence of events or story’s primary sequence of events or to fill in crucial back-story. to fill in crucial back-story.

Teaching

ExampleExample

Danny remembered more about his mother's Danny remembered more about his mother's death than he'd ever told anyone. The day she death than he'd ever told anyone. The day she died, she had called each of her sons to her died, she had called each of her sons to her bedside individually.bedside individually.

"Pour me a cup of fresh water, please," she "Pour me a cup of fresh water, please," she said, her voice thick with the Polish accent said, her voice thick with the Polish accent that decorated her words when she was tired that decorated her words when she was tired or sick.or sick.

Danny filled the cup, careful not to splash it Danny filled the cup, careful not to splash it on the bedside table.on the bedside table.

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"Now, hand me my lipstick.""Now, hand me my lipstick."

But he didn't leave. He stood in the But he didn't leave. He stood in the doorway and had watched as she had doorway and had watched as she had swallowed the pills, three at a time, until swallowed the pills, three at a time, until they were gone.they were gone.

Even now, Danny felt responsible for her Even now, Danny felt responsible for her death. He looked at his father and death. He looked at his father and swallowed hard .swallowed hard .

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What movies, TV shows, or books What movies, TV shows, or books that you have watched or read have that you have watched or read have had flashback in them?had flashback in them?

Teaching

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1Mastery

On your own sheet of notebook paper, define flashback. Then read the short story, “Ping! Ping!” (see teacher for a copy). Place the events of the story on a timeline to represent a flashback.

2Interpersonal

On your own sheet of notebook paper, write a journal entry (at least three paragraphs long—make sure you use proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling) explaining why you are more confident or afraid today because of something that happened in the past.

3Understanding

On your own sheet of notebook paper, write your own story that contains flashback. Your story doesn’t have to be long, but it needs to makes sense. Make sure your story contains proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Draw a picture representing the flashback from your story.

4Self-Expression

First, ask your teacher for computer paper. Next, draw a “Family Circus” cartoon that contains a bubble illustrating flashback. Write an explanation of the present events and the flashback.

How do I identify flashback in a passage or story?

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