Todays Warm Up 1 Enter room quietly 2

Today’s Warm Up 1. Enter room quietly. 2. Using your composition notebook, write down 10 words that relate to fiction and the elements of a story. 3. Leave the yellow textbooks in the middle of your table. 4. SSR

Today’s Agenda Using the Textbook, look for definitions to Unit 1 Vocabulary Terms. Look in the following areas: q Unit 1 (p. 2) q Literary Handbook (p. R 11) q You might have to look up the word in the index (p. R 47) or look up the category it falls under (i. e. Elements of Plot…maybe look up “plot” in the index ) q. SSR when you are finished.

Unit 1 Vocabulary Terms

The speaker of the story Narrator

The perspective from which a story is told Point of View

The message about life within a story Theme

The main character in a literary work Protagonist

A character or a force in conflict with the main character Antagonist

A struggle between opposing forces; one of the most important elements of a story Conflict

Takes place within the mind of a character Internal Conflict

One in which the character struggles against some outside force (another person, nature, etc) External Conflict

Series of events in a story Plot

A person or an animal that takes part in the action of a literary work Character

Time and Place of the action of a story Setting

Characters, Setting and Conflict are introduced; Beginning of story Exposition

Conflict develops and interest in story rises Rising Action

Turning point in the story when the protagonist faces the conflict head-on Climax

Loose ends are tied up Falling Action

Story comes to a reasonable end Resolution

The perspective of a character in a story First Person POV

The perspective of a narrator outside the story Third Person POV