Lesson 5.03
LESSON Objectives:
At the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
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Identify conflict in a drama, novel, or short story.
provide quotations from a text to show how dialogue impacts the conflict of a
story.
ACADEMIC VOCABULARY
Even though some of these terms may seem familiar to you, it’s extremely important that we
understand them so you’re able to answer the questions in the assessment:
Setting: the time and place in which a story happens. Basically this is the backdrop or scene
design of a stage. It answers the question “Where does the story take place?”
Protagonist: the main character of a story who must struggle with the conflict. To describe a
protagonist, you need to understand his motives (the reason why he does what he does),
actions (what he actually does in the story), and from the motives and actions, you can infer
character traits (adjectives you would use to describe his personality).
Conflict: the problem or struggle a protagonist has to face throughout the story. There are
several different types of conflict: man vs. man, man vs. self, man vs. nature, man vs.
society.
Rising Actions: these are scenes in the novel in which the conflict becomes worse and bigger.
These scenes are meant to build tension to keep the reader engaged.
Dialogue: the part of a story during which a character speaks or thinks. Dialogue is often put
into quotation marks with a tagline at the end indicating who said the dialogue.
Narration: this is the part of the story in which the narrator explains what is going on in the
story. It is not dialogue and often contains important descriptions of what’s going on in the story
and what the author wants you to know.
USING DIALOGUE AND NARRATION AS EVIDENCE FROM THE
TEXT
When we write about a story, we’re offering what we as the
reader experience while reading the text. It’s our perspective of what’s
going on in the text, so we need to be able to back up what we think
with evidence from the text. Let’s take a look at a short excerpt from “All
Summer in a Day.”
Say you’re given the question “Describe the setting of the short story.” I
would summarize what the text states about the setting:
The setting is on Venus, where it rains all day long, keeping the children
inside. They can only go out once every seven years. It takes place in
the future because nobody lives on Venus yet.
Now, you have to back up this statement with evidence from the text.
Go back to the short story and identify where the author described the
setting. Use this as your evidence! Here’s what I would use to back up
my statement about setting with evidence from the text:
“It had been raining for seven years; thousands upon thousands of days
compounded and filled from one end to the other with rain, with the
drum and gush of water, with the sweet crystal fall of showers and the
concussion of storms so heavy they were tidal waves come over the
islands…And this was the way life was forever on the planet
Venus, and this was the schoolroom of the children of the rocket
men and women who had come to a raining world to set up
civilization and live out their lives.” (Bradbury 1)
Now, I have fully answered the question with evidence from the text!
ASSESSMENT: YOUR TURN
1. Download a copy of “The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane here:
http://learn.flvs.net/educator/common/Course/MJLanguageArts3V14/TheOpenBoat.pdf
2. Read sections 1 and 2 only. You can listen to an audio recording of the short story here:
http://www.safeyoutube.net/w/Qqk
3. Use complete sentences to respond to each question about your novel or short story.
When providing quotes from your text, include page numbers in parentheses, if you read
a book.
Title of short story or novel __________________________________________________
Author ___________________________________________________________________
1.
Describe the setting of your novel or short story (2-3 Sentences).
Provide a quotation from the text to support your answer.
2.
Describe the protagonist of your novel or short story (Be sure to explain character traits, motives,
and actions. 5 Sentences).
Provide a quotation from the text to support your answer.
3.
Discuss the main conflict in your novel or short story. If the conflict is not perfectly clear yet, what do
you suspect it will be? Explain who is trying to do what (3 Sentences).
Which of the four major types of conflict best describes the situation you discussed(Man vs. Man, Man
vs. Self, Man vs. Nature, Man vs. Society)?
4.
Provide at least two examples of dialogue in your novel or short story that support the type of
conflict you have identified.
Explain how each example of dialogue supports the conflict (4 Sentences).
5.
Describe two examples of rising action events in your novel or short story. Be sure to explain how
the conflict becomes worse in these rising actions.
a.
First Rising Action (2 Sentences):
Provide a quotation from the text to support your answer.
b.
Second Rising Action (2 Sentences):
Provide a quotation from the text to support your answer.
GRADE yourself on THIS rubric! It is the SAME rubric your teachers will be using when
they grade this assignment for you.
5.03 Rubric
Task
Author/Title
Success Achieved
Close to Success
3-1
0
____ I provided the title and author of my novel/short
story.
Setting
Description
5-3
____ I clearly used complete sentences to describe the
setting of my novel/short story.
Setting Text
Support
4-3
____ I clearly provided a quote and page number from
the text to support my description of the setting.
Protagonist
Description
5-3
____ I clearly used complete sentences to describe the
protagonist of my novel/short story.
Protagonist Text
Support
4-3
____ I clearly provided a quote and page number from
the text to support my description of the protagonist.
Conflict
Description
5-3
____ I clearly used complete sentences to discuss the
conflict of my novel/short story.
Conflict Type
5-3
____ I clearly used complete sentences to explain which
of the four major types of conflict is used.
Dialogue
Dialogue
Supporting
Conflict
____ I did not provide the title and author of my
novel/short story.
2-0
____ I partly used complete sentences to describe
the setting of my novel/short story.
2-0
____ I partly provided a quote and page number
from the text to support my description of the
setting.
2-0
____ I partly used complete sentences to describe
the protagonist of my novel/short story.
2-0
____ I partly provided a quote and page number
from the text to support my description of the
protagonist.
2-0
____ I partly used complete sentences to discuss
the conflict of my novel/short story.
2-0
____ I partly used complete sentences to explain
which of the four major types of conflict is used.
5-3
2-0
____ I clearly used complete sentences to describe two
examples of dialogue connected to the conflict.
____ I partly used complete sentences to describe
two examples of dialogue connected to the
conflict.
5-3
2-0
Points I
think I
Earned
____ I clearly used complete sentences to explain how
the examples of dialogue connect to the conflict.
Rising Action
Rising Action Text
Support
5-3
2-0
____ I clearly used complete sentences to describe an
important event of rising action in my novel/short story.
____ I partly used complete sentences to describe
an important event of rising action in my
novel/short story.
4-3
2-0
____ I clearly provided a quote and page number from
the text to support an important event of rising action
in my novel/short story.
Earned Points
Grade
____ I partly used complete sentences to explain
how the examples of dialogue connect to the
conflict.
______out of_
____ I partly provided a quote and page number to
describe an important event of rising action in my
novel/short story.
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