Flashback How do I identify flashback in a

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

LITERARY ELEMENTS Key Learning: Writers use the elements of fictionplot, conflict, flashback, foreshadowing, setting, and theme- to create a story. 0701. 8. 1, 0701. 8. 7, 0701. 7. 6, 0701. 8. 9, 0701. 8. 11, 0701. 8. 5

Unit Essential Question: How does an author use the elements of fiction to create a story? Concept: Plot 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? Vocabulary: Exposition , Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution/Denouement, Complication, Conflict, Setting Flashback and Foreshadowing Concept: Theme Lesson Essential Questions: ·How do I identify flashback in a passage or story? ·How do I identify foreshadowing in a passage or story? ·How do I recognize implied and stated theme? Vocabulary: Flashback Foreshadowing Vocabulary: Implied Theme Stated Theme

Flashback Activator n Listen as Miss Rumphius is read to you n Pay attention n. Do you know what special literary device is being used?

Teaching What is Flashback? n A flashback is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point the story has reached. n Flashbacks are often used to recount events that happened prior to the story’s primary sequence of events or to fill in crucial back-story.

Example Danny remembered more about his mother's death than he'd ever told anyone. The day she died, she had called each of her sons to her bedside individually. "Pour me a cup of fresh water, please, " she said, her voice thick with the Polish accent that decorated her words when she was tired or sick. Danny filled the cup, careful not to splash it on the bedside table. Continued on next

Example "Now, hand me my lipstick. " But he didn't leave. He stood in the doorway and had watched as she had swallowed the pills, three at a time, until they were gone. Even now, Danny felt responsible for her death. He looked at his father and swallowed hard.

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

Flashback Choice Boxes 1 Mastery 2 Interpersonal On your own sheet of notebook paper, define flashback. Then read the short story, “Ping!” (see teacher for a copy). Place the events of the story on a timeline to represent a flashback. 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. How do I identify flashback in a passage or story? 3 Understanding 4 Self-Expression 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. 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.

Family Circus Cartoons

Flashback Summarizer n Ticket-Out-The-Door n Explain the literary device used in Miss Rumphius.