1. Learning Targets: What you need to know and be able to do by the end….
Short Stories
Learning Targets:
What you need to know and be able to do by the end….

2. Setting
Time
Past, present, future, alternate universe, year, season, time of day. All are important!!
Place
Geographical place (region, country, state), in a home, out in the forest, in a space ship…..

3. Look at the image and describe the setting in as much detail as possible. What can you infer, or figure out, about the story from the setting in the pictures? Take 5 minutes now and in your notes, write down your predictions for what kind of a story this might be and what might happen in the story, just based off of the setting.

4. What can we infer about the setting here
What can we infer about the setting here? Take a few minutes and write down your thoughts in your notes before we share together.

5. Point of View- Who is telling the story?
POV- perspective of the story. Do stories change depending on who is telling them?
Narrator- speaker or character telling the story
First person- Character in the story is telling it. “I”
Third Person- a voice outside of the story tells it.
Omniscient- can tell what any character thinks and feels
Limited- Sees the world through one character and only reveals that character’s thoughts

6. Conflict: Problem or struggle that triggers the action
Person vs. Person: One person has a problem with another person
Person vs. Society: Character has a problem with some element of society (school, law, accepted way of doing things)
Person vs. Nature: Character has issue with some natural happening (snowstorm, avalanche, cold, or other element of nature
Person vs. Self: Character has a problem deciding what to do in a certain situation

7. For each of the next four slides, look at the image and figure out what kind of conflict is being represented and how you know.
Me love cookies.
Me shouldn't eat cookie.
But me LOVES cookie!  But me shouldn't eat it... 

11. Characters Protagonist- Central character; the hero/ine.
Most of the actions centers on him or her and we usually like them the most.
Antagonist- the character working AGAINST the protagonist or the hero.
Dynamic characters change over the course of a story; Static characters stay the same.

12. How do we learn about characters?
Direct vs. Indirect Characterization
Direct- The author tells us exactly what the character is like in the author’s own words.
Indirect- description comes from what they look like, but not direct description, their actions, their words, other character’s actions towards them. We have to infer, or figure out, what a character is like from what others say or think about them.

13. Now watch the video and answer the questions on the notes sheet.

14. Irony: Any time the actual result of something is the opposite of what you would expect
Verbal Irony: When what you say is the exact OPPOSITE if what you mean
Dramatic Irony: The audience is aware of something that the characters are not
Situational Irony: The exact opposite happens of what you would expect to happen

15. Watch the videos!
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16. Elements of the Short Story
Plot- Sequence of events in a story…. Any story and they will all follow the same format

17. Exposition Introduces everything: Setting (where and when)
Characters (who)
Background info
Watch the video on “Exposition” and answer the questions on your worksheet

18. Rising Action
Conflict (problem or struggle- more on this in a minute) introduced and intensifies
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19. Climax High point! Most exciting time! High point of suspense!
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20. Falling Action
After the climax, action starts to wind down and the complications start to resolve.
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21. Resolution
End of the conflict. Shows how everything turns out. Ties up loose ends.
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22. Plot Summarized
All stories follow this format. As you watch the story, follow along and identify each element of the story.