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elderberrywine
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"plot"
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How do you explain to younger students what "plot" in literature is - as opposed to just action?
I am thinking of making my students write a reading log which I don �t just want to be a summary of the chapters of the book, but an analysis of plot.
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23 Mar 2014
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ueslteacher
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By giving examples. Read a couple of stories and lead them in the analysis of the plot, then they �ll know what you mean by that. |
23 Mar 2014
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cunliffe
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I term it �the storyline. � My teacher used to draw it on the board to show us. She drew a sort of semi-circle, like a brontosaurus - very narrow at one end - the beginning - the hump in the middle all the action and the culmination- then the tail - the ending.
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23 Mar 2014
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elderberrywine
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I don �t mean the "first this happens, then the next thing happens", but I mean plot in the sense of motives, consequences, conflicts, twists and turns etc.
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23 Mar 2014
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cunliffe
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Well, the plot is the storyline, or what happens. If you don �t want a straightforward recount, but you want them to analyse, critique, deduce, etc..you need to go with what Sophia says and show by example. I would start off with a re-tell �he did this and then he did that �.. and then ask, but why? What are the implications? What did he hope to achieve? etc...It �s not easy. At the moment, with the classes I �ve got, a summary would be great.  |
23 Mar 2014
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