FICTION, FIGURATIVES AND FANTASTIC!!
STARGIRL CLICK ON STARGIRL
THEMES - CITE EXAMPLES OF THEMES FROM THE ABOVE ARTICLE
Author Jerry Spinelli Web Page
Fantastic Fiction Folders - use the pyramid to create your folder with each of the following elements below.
Vocabulary Visionary
Keep book marks for words that wow you, throw you and you just find interesting!
Introduction - characters, setting and building the plot, point of view - who is telling the story and why?
Rising Action - building the plot with conflicts - internal and external, symbolism and figurative language more apparent, build connections with self, text and world, visualizing, clarifying what doesn't make sense, predicting actions and events, mentally solving problems and wondering,
Climax - Problem explodes, Characters attitudes are more clear to the reader, predictions swell, setting apparently changes or stays the same, conflict structure is clear.
characters verse characters
characters verse nature
characters verse internal - themselves
characters versus society
Symbolism and Figurative language, theme and Author's Point of View
Falling Action - Problems start revealing solutions, characters reveal changes or outcomes for the predictions you made, setting may change
Resolution - Story closes with problems solved, characters reveal true attitudes, theme is clear, author's message comes to fruition. I relate to this book, I evaluate this book with my connections at each level - self, text and world.
Love that Dog, Hate that Cat
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