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Story Story
+Short Story
Literary Elements
n Plot
n Character
Genre Focus
n What is a short story?
n Why read a short story?
n How to read a short story?
Reading Skills
n Predict
n Evaluate
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Genre Focus: Short Story
+ Genre Focus: Short Story
Short stories are short made-up (not true) stories.
n Made-up stories are called fiction.
Short stories are usually in narrative form.
n Narrative is a series of events that tells a story. n Narrator is someone who tells a story.
+ Genre Focus: Short Story
Short stories tend to be more simple than novels (long stories).
n Usually a short story focuses on (has):
• only one incident or conflict
• What is the problem?
• has a single plot.
• What happens?
• a single setting or place
• Where does it happens?
• a small number of characters (people).
• Who is in the story?
• covers a short period of time.
• When does it happen?
+ Genre Focus: Short Story
Every short story has a plot:
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Literary Elements: Plot and Character
+ Literary Elements: Plot Plot is all parts of a story
n Each part of the story leads to the next part. n It is the basic plan of the story.
The plot is created through conflict.
n Conflict is a struggle between n people n ideas n forces
+ Literary Elements: Plot
Exposition
• Exposition introduces the reader to the characters, place and time of the story.
Rising Action
• As the story continues, conflicts or problems happen to create suspense.
Climax
• The conflict in the rising action reaches a point where it is clear.
Falling Action
• The conflict start to be resolved or solved by the characters in the story.
Resolution
• The conflict is solved and the story ends with a lesson for the reader.
+ Literary Elements: Plot
+ Literary Elements: Character A character is an actor in the story.
n Characters can be people, animals, robots or whatever the writer wants.
You learn about the characters by:
n What they do. n What they think. n What they say. n What they feel.
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Reading Skills: Predict and Evaluate
+ Reading Skills: Predict Predict
n To predict means to think ahead to guess what might happen. n Use clues in the story to guess what will happen next.
When you read what really happened, you are checking your prediction.
n Your prediction doesn’t always have to be true! It’s a guess!
+ Reading Skills: Evaluate Evaluate
n When you evaluate, you form an opinion about the story while you read it.
n An opinion is what you think or believe. n Everyone has different opinions!
When you evaluate, you ask yourself questions:
n How do I feel about the character or what is happening?
+ Project
Making a Short Story
You will draw/write a short story
Your short story must have:
a title a character a conflict a resolution