Conflict & Plot in "The Interlopers"

Tuesday 3 September 2013 for periods 2, 5, 6 & 7 and Wednesday 4 September 2013 for period 1

Devotional text: Proverbs 3:5-6

Students worked with Mr. Stone to label and arrange nearly thirty sheets of paper across the front board to illustrate the overlapping plot lines of the human v. human and human v. nature conflicts in Saki's "The Interlopers." Students drew and labeled the two plot lines on their own paper using a black pen for the human v. human plot line and green for the human v. nature plot line.

Journal Entry: Mind Games

Describe a time when for entertainment you played tricks on others or when others played tricks on you.

Homework: Read Shirley Jackson's "One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts" (420-430).