1. Today’s Warm Up Enter room quietly.
Using your composition notebook, write down 10 words that relate to fiction and the elements of a story.
Leave the yellow textbooks in the middle of your table.
SSR

2. Today’s Agenda SSR when you are finished.
Using the Textbook, look for definitions to Unit 1 Vocabulary Terms.
Look in the following areas:
Unit 1 (p. 2)
Literary Handbook (p.R11)
You might have to look up the word in the index (p. R47) or look up the category it falls under (i.e. Elements of Plot…maybe look up “plot” in the index )
SSR when you are finished.

3. Unit 1 Vocabulary Terms

4. The speaker of the story
Narrator

5. The perspective from which a story is told
Point of View

6. The message about life within a story

7. The main character in a literary work
Protagonist

8. A character or a force in conflict with the main character
Antagonist

9. A struggle between opposing forces; one of the most important elements of a story
Conflict

10. Takes place within the mind of a character
Internal Conflict

11. One in which the character struggles against some outside force (another person, nature, etc)
External Conflict

12. Series of events in a story
Plot

13. A person or an animal that takes part in the action of a literary work
Character

14. Time and Place of the action of a story
Setting

15. Characters, Setting and Conflict are introduced; Beginning of story
Exposition

16. Conflict develops and interest in story rises
Rising Action

17. Turning point in the story when the protagonist faces the conflict head-on
Climax

18. Loose ends are tied up
Falling Action

19. Story comes to a reasonable end
Resolution

20. The perspective of a character in a story
First Person POV

21. The perspective of a narrator outside the story
Third Person POV