1. What role does internal and external conflict play in expressing an author’s viewpoint and expressing an author’s purpose?

2. What is conflict? Internal and External? (man vs. man, man vs. society, man vs. nature, man vs. self, man vs. technology)

3. Activating: Share a personal experience with conflict. Quick write: What is conflict? What is the last conflict you had? What type of conflict would it be categorized as?

4. What is happening in all these pictures?

5. Notes: Conflict-struggle between opposing forces. Conflict is the dramatic struggle between two forces in a story. Without conflict, there is no plot. Internal-struggle WITHTIN a character’s mind. Deciding between right and wrong; feelings; choices External-struggle between a character and an OUTSIDE force (character, nature, society).

6. Turn to Page 28 in the Textbook.

7. Gallery Walk Different types of conflicts are posted around the room. Walk around, write down what type of conflict it can be categorized as.

10. MLK stood up against the public of the time with many others. People were not being treated equally based on race, and they saw this as a problem. He dedicated his life to ending racism and injustice.

13. What’s the conflict? Person versus person Person versus self Person versus nature Person versus society Person versus technology What might be going on in this picture?

15. What’s the conflict? Person versus person Person versus self Person versus nature Person versus society Person versus technology What might be going on in this picture?

16. Summarizing Letter to an absent student

17. Conflict-Details, Page Number Internal/ExternalMan vs…SolutionHow does the conflict reflect the themes and message of the novel?