1. Follow these directions:
Write down your homework.
Get your reading folder.
Add A Christmas Carol: Scrooge & Marley to your reading record.

2. Five Literary Elements of Fiction
Characters
Setting
Plot
Conflict
Theme

3. Conflict Conflict = problem A struggle between opposing forces
Provides tension, interest, and suspense to a story
Involves the protagonist and antagonist

4. Conflict Protagonist (Character with a conflict) Conflict Antagonist
How the protagonist changes.

5. External Conflict Man vs. Man Man vs. Nature Man vs. Society
A struggle between a character (protagonist) and an outside force.
Examples of external forces:
Another character (antagonist)
Force of Nature
Society
Family
Peers

6. Might not be tangible or visible problems
Internal Conflict
Man vs. Himself
Conflict that takes place within the protagonist and causes tension.
Types of struggles that could take place in a character's mind:
Emotions
Conscience – deciding between right and wrong
Decision making
Addiction/disease
Might not be tangible or visible problems

7. Conflict Examples EXTERNAL CONFLICT INTERNAL CONFLICT
Zach Powers bullies Capricorn Anderson.
Two teens on a hike get lost in a blizzard.
During World War I, a young man with religious beliefs against fighting is drafted into the army.
Two three-year olds fight over the same toy dump truck.
Rain decides to sell Garland Farms and join the “real world.”
A mother with a smoking addiction tries to quit for her family.
A middle school student sees an iPad unattended in the library and thinks about stealing it.

8. As you read today…
Describe an external conflict your protagonist is experiencing using the 5Ws. Focus on PHYSICAL action verbs to determine an internal conflict.
Describe an internal conflict your protagonist dealing with using the 5Ws. Focus on MENTAL action verbs to determine an internal conflict.

9. External Conflict Example
Who? – Scrooge vs. Marley
What? – Marley haunts Scrooge.
When? – Christmas Eve 1843
Where? – Scrooge’s house in London, England
Why? – To help Scrooge escape the same fate as Marley