Plot

Tuesday 1 September 2015 for Periods 2, 5, and 6 and Wednesday 2 September 2015 for Periods 1 & 7

Devotional Text:  Proverbs 1:1-7

Quiz:  Saki's "The Interlopers"

Students took notes on plot.  They labeled the parts of a plot line and defined them:

exposition
narrative hook
rising action
climax
falling action
resolution

They discussed the types of conflict, e.g. human v. human, human v. nature, human v. self, etc.  (Mr. Stone prefers the use of "human" or "person" rather than "man" to be more inclusive to women.)

The class discussed the plots of the stories they have already read.

The class examined the day's edition of the Wall Street Journal.

Homework:  Read Shirley Jackson's "One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts" (420-430). There will be a quiz over the story at the beginning of the next class.