1. Why are they important?

2.  Characters: Who are the main people in the story?  Setting: When/where does the story take place? (Time, location, descriptive surroundings)  Plot: What is the main problem in the story? What events lead up to the problem and solution?  Solution: How is the problem solved?

3.  A Bad Case of Stripes  Who was the main character?  Camilla Cream was who the book was all about.  Where is the setting?  The story takes place in school and at her house.

4.  What is the plot? (Main problem/events)  The problem was that Camilla felt different than her peers, and didn’t want to get made fun of for liking lima beans. Camilla developed a bad case of stripes and felt even more different than she would have eating lima beans.  What is the solution to this problem?  Camilla is given a lima bean from a wise woman. She becomes herself again and realizes that it’s okay to like different things.

5.  Who were the main characters?  The grandma and the young girl (the author)  What is the setting? (Time, location)  It took place in the summer on a farm in Michigan

6.  What was the plot?  The young girl was afraid of thunder and often hid under the bed during a storm. The grandmother and granddaughter took several trips around the farm and woods to gather ingredients to make a Thunder Cake.  What is the solution?  After making the Thunder Cake, the young girl never feared thunder again.

7.  The 4 main narrative story elements are:  Characters  Setting  Plot  Solution  Let’s see if you can complete one more activity before working on this independently…