Wednesday, 9/10/14

* Open

• Grammar Opening: 
• "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 (122).

Term: Plot: The structure and relationship of actions and events in a literary work (Wheeler).  Some break a plot into three parts, some five (complication is part of the exposition), some six. 

• Beginning
• 1. Exposition

• 2. Complication or inciting incident (the antagonist presents an obstacle to the protagonist)

• Middle
• 3. Rising action which features 
• Crisis points
• 4. 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
• 5. Falling action, denouement
• resolution

• 6. Conclusion 
• open ending or

• closed ending

* Let's apply plot to The Hobbit so far.

* Review journals together.

* Read in class.

HW: Read through ch. 7 (or beyond)
(Schwager's students: Olympians and Fragments Quiz on Block Day)