Monday, 9/16/13: Homecoming Week Begins!

* Open

• Grammar: When you wish up on a star it makes no diference who you are anything you're hart desires will come to you. 

* Review plot

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).  

* Note: We will give you some reading time in class this week as you'll want to finish the novel this week so that you will have plenty of time to write up your answers next week.

HW: J3; Hobbit through ch. 11