Block Day: Plot

* Open

• Grammar Opening: 
• Token rote: I am nearly dead of [hunger] said Bilbo in a week little voice that nobody heard. That can perhaps be mended said the Lord the Eagls....Gandalf too was liing down after doing his part in seting the fire going since Oin and Gloin had lost there tinder-boxes. [Dwarves have never taken too matches even yet.] 122

Notes: Plot concerns the series of events that take place in the narrative and the resolution of the conflict between the protagonist and antagonist (Turco).

• Beginning
• exposition
• complication or inciting incident (the antagonist presents an obstacle to the protagonist)
• rising action which features 
• crisis points

• Middle
• climax or ultimate crisis 
• there may be a black moment (darkest point of the climax)
• the protagonist may experience an epiphany, sudden realization, clarification, or anagnorisis

•  End
• falling action, denouement
• resolution
• open ending
• closed ending

Let's apply plot to The Hobbit (Bilbo and Gollum).


* Short Stories: Esther; you may click the link to your left or read from a Bible.

•  Journal 3: Write an overview of the plot of Esther using all the bold elements above (one page). 

HW: Read through ch. 9