1. What if everyone were the same?
Essential Question
The Incredibles - Dash and Mom
The Incredibles – Syndrome
What if everyone were the same?

2. Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Objective: Students will be able to identify plot and explain how characters advance the plot.
Vocabulary: Vigilance, wince, consternation, cower, synchronize, neutralize
Purpose: Reviewing the components of a story enables students to be able to analyze a story.
Literary Element Focus: exposition, conflict, draw conclusions

3. Vocabulary Vigilance (noun) – alert attention, watchfulness
The crossing guard’s vigilance keeps the children safe when they cross the street.
Wince (verb) – to shrink or flinch involuntarily, especially in pain
Consternation (noun) – confused amazement or fear
Jim was filled with consternation at the thought of his upcoming root canal.

4. Vocabulary Cower (verb) – to crouch down in fear
Synchronize (verb) – to match the timing of
Before we leave lets synchronize our watches.
Neutralize (verb) – to counteract or cancel the effect of
Wearing your seatbelt can neutralize the impact of a collision.

5. Literary Element terms
Conflict – struggle between opposing forces
Man vs. man
Man vs. nature
Man vs. society
In “Harrison Bergeron”, Harrison is struggling with the U.S. society in 2081.
Setting – the time and place of a story
Mood – the feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for reader. (The reader’s feelings.)

6. Literary Elements - PLOT
Plot – The sequence of events in a story (p. R110)
Exposition – First stage of a story’s plot (p. R105)
Provides background information
Introduces the setting
Introduces characters
Sometimes introduces main conflict
Rising Action – Second stage of a story’s plot (p.R112)
Conflict develops
Events build toward the climax

7. Literary Elements - PLOT
Climax – Third stage of a story’s plot (p. R104)
The point of maximum interest or tension
The turning point in a story
Falling Action – Fourth stage of a story’s plot (p. R106)
Shows the result of important decisions made or actions taken during the climax
Resolution – Final stage of a story’s plot (p. R106 under falling action)
Provides the final outcome of the events of the story