1. Do Now
Review your notes and handouts about character development in The Crucible.
On a sheet of paper make a list of the top 3 characters that have developed the most throughout the play so far.
For each character write one sentence that explains how that character has changed and why.

2. Lesson Agenda Do Now: character development review
Standards and Objectives
Assessment Coming Up
Narrative and plot overview
Freytag’s Pyramid (plot diagram) notes and practice
Closure: Apply plot structure to 2 short films

3. Standards & Objectives
11-12.RL.KID.3 Analyze how an author’s choices regarding the development and interaction of characters, events, and ideas over the course of a text impact meaning.
11-12.SL.CC.1 Initiate and participate effectively with varied partners in a range of collaborative discussions on appropriate 11th-12th grade topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
Students will identify the plot structure for different sample narratives and The Crucible and explain how plot relates to conflict, character development, and the author’s purpose.
Students will answer questions and discuss their thoughts about plot structure and how to analyze them from sample narratives and The Crucible.

4. BTW, why do you need these skills?
Assessment Coming Up
After reading act 4 of The Crucible, you will work in small groups to prepare and give a presentation that uses evidence to thoroughly explain one character’s development throughout the story, including:
Their characterization in different acts
The conflict(s) that drove that character’s change
How the play’s plot affects or is affected by this character’s development
An interpretation of author’s purpose and how your character’s development demonstrates this message
BTW, why do you need these skills?

5. Why would it be told out of order?
What is narrative?
Narrative is a story - a sequence of events, but it may not be told in order.
Why would it be told out of order?
Narratives can be found in many forms (a novel, play, short story, myth, poem, song, movie, a TV or radio episode, painting, photograph, sculpture, etc.)

6. What is plot?
Plot is how a story develops around a conflict and through cause-and-effect relationships that come from characters’ actions and external influences, like environment and chance.
What is conflict? Can you think of an example of conflict in a story you know well?

7. How do you understand a plot?
Today, we will focus on the structure of narrative through using a plot diagram, also known as Freytag’s Pyramid* *with one change by me

8. Freytag’s Pyramid

9. Exposition: The exposition is the setup of the story
Exposition: The exposition is the setup of the story. Important background information is provided such as the setting, the main character, and what their normal life is like.

10. Exposition- Katniss goes about her usual routine of meeting Gale, and they discuss normal life and the upcoming Hunger Games

11. Inciting Incident: something unexpected occurs, introducing the story’s major conflict and driving the protagonist into a strange adventure that will only end when the conflict is resolved. This is also usually when the antagonist is introduced.

12. 2/17/2019
Watch the following clip from The Avengers and take notes about what elements or qualities of this scene you think make it an inciting incident. Then, briefly chat with your partner and compare your notes before we discuss it as a class.
3:00-5:36

14. Inciting Incident- the tesseract turns on and Loki, the antagonist, appears. The conflict is introduced: he takes the tesseract and tries to take over the world.

15. 2/17/2019
Now, talk with your partner briefly about the plot of The Crucible and identify what would be the exposition and inciting incident of this play.
3:00-5:36

16. OR is it Tituba falsely confessing to seeing others with the devil?
2/17/2019
OR is it Tituba falsely confessing to seeing others with the devil?
Is the inciting incident Parris discovering the girls dancing in the woods?
3:00-5:36

17. Do Now
In our last lesson, we discussed the inciting incident of The Crucible and reviewed Rising Action (definition below).
Now identify two major events from acts 2 and 3 that represent rising action in the play’s plot AND briefly explain why for each.
Rising Action: a series of events that move the story to a climax. During rising action, the conflict develops and progresses, frustrating the main character’s attempt to reach his/her goal.

18. Rising Action: a series of events and actions that move the story to a climax. During rising action, the conflict develops and progresses, frustrating the main character’s attempt to reach his/her goal. This is the “training wheels” stage for the hero.

19. Rising Action- Peter Parker, after being bitten by a genetically enhanced spider, creates a disguise and uses his new-found strengths to hunt down his uncle’s killer.

20. Rising Action- Meanwhile, Dr
Rising Action- Meanwhile, Dr. Curt Connors experiments with limb regeneration via lizard DNA, transforming himself into the Lizard.

21. Climax: the peak of excitement and major turning point
Climax: the peak of excitement and major turning point. After the climax everything changes. Things will have gone badly for the main character up to this point; now, things will begin to go well for him or her. This is when the protagonist must decide to be a true hero and face the conflict head-on.

22. Climax- David, though a boy, has a moment of realization that he can defeat the giant Goliath.

23. 2/17/2019
Watch the following clip from The Dark Knight Rises and take notes about what elements or qualities of this scene you think make it a climax. Then, briefly chat with your partner and compare your notes before we discuss it as a class.
3:00-5:36

25. Climax- After Bane breaks his back and leaves him in “the pit,” Bruce Wayne recovers and climbs out to return to save Gotham.

26. 2/17/2019
Now, talk with your partner briefly about the plot of The Crucible and identify what would be the climax of this play. AND When you are analyzing a story’s plot for the climax, what questions could you ask to help verify that it’s the climax? For example, to verify rising action I might ask, “Is the conflict becoming more complicated/getting more difficult to end?”
3:00-5:36

27. 2/17/2019
Climax- John confesses to lechery, Elizabeth lies, and Mary falsely accuses.
3:00-5:36

28. Falling Action: the hero improves and comes closer to resolving the problem, but everything is still building to an inevitable face-off with the antagonist. A metaphorical death and resurrection may occur before the Final Event.

29. Falling Action- After hitting an iceberg, all of the passengers scramble to escape the sinking ship.

30. Falling Action- Meanwhile, Jack and Rose, while trying to survive, attempt to escape Rose’s jilted fiancée, while trying to survive the elements.

31. Final Event: the battle, the face-off, the show-down: the moment where the conflict is ended by the outcome of the protagonist and antagonist confronting one another for the final time.

32. Final Event- Harry and Voldemort finally face each other and fight to the death.

33. Final Event- Rey, who has discovered she has a strong Force ability, must face the antagonist, Kylo Ren- a Sith (uses the dark side of the Force).

34. Final Event- while Rey and Kylo Ren are fighting, the Rebellion pilots attempt to blow up the Starkiller Base and stop the First Order from destroying their planet. This is the major conflict.

35. The Tesseract has to be turned off.
Remember to separate the antagonist and the conflict. In The Avengers Loki must be defeated, but what problem has to be solved as well?
The Tesseract has to be turned off.

36. Resolution: the conflict is resolved. The world returns to a balance
Resolution: the conflict is resolved. The world returns to a balance. The hero usually continues life having learned an important lesson that’s made them stronger/better. That lesson is usually the overall theme of the story.

37. 2/17/2019
Watch the following clip from Avengers: Infinity War. and take notes about what elements or qualities of this scene you think make it a resolution. Then, briefly chat with your partner and compare your notes before we discuss it as a class.
1:44:43 – 1:45:50

39. Resolution- Thanos is the antihero protagonist of the movie
Resolution- Thanos is the antihero protagonist of the movie. After he has searched, fought, and sacrificed everything to complete the infinity gauntlet and use it, the Avengers grieve for their lost friends while Thanos gets to “finally rest and watch the sun rise on a grateful universe.”

40. What about the theme, the lesson that Thanos learned/endured?
To obtain the Soul Stone, Thanos has to sacrifice something he loves: Gamora. Thanos makes this personal sacrifice to accomplish his “selfless” goal: save the universe by sacrificing half its population. Sacrifice is necessary for success/salvation.

41. 4. Climax:
3. Rising Action:
5. Falling Action:
2. Inciting Incident:
6. Final Event:
7. Resolution:
1. Exposition: