- Identify conflict in a drama, novel, or short story. - provide quotations from a text to show how dialogue impacts the conflict of a story.

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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

1 Lesson 5.03 LESSON Objectives: At the end of this lesson, students will be able to: - 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.

2 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: 2. Read sections 1 and 2 only. You can listen to an audio recording of the short story here: 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

3 Author 1. Describe the setting of your novel or short story (2-3 Sentences). 2. Describe the protagonist of your novel or short story (Be sure to explain character traits, motives, and actions. 5 Sentences). 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): b. Second Rising Action (2 Sentences): GRADE yourself on THIS rubric! It is the SAME rubric your teachers will be using when they grade this assignment for you.

4 5.03 Rubric Task Success Achieved Close to Success Points I think I Earned Author/Title I provided the title and author of my novel/short story. I did not provide the title and author of my Setting I clearly used complete sentences to describe the setting of my the setting of my Setting Text the text to support my description of the setting. I partly provided a quote and page number from the text to support my description of the setting. Protagonist I clearly used complete sentences to describe the protagonist of my the protagonist of my Protagonist Text the text to support my description of the protagonist. I partly provided a quote and page number from the text to support my description of the protagonist. Conflict I clearly used complete sentences to discuss the conflict of my I partly used complete sentences to discuss the conflict of my Conflict Type I clearly used complete sentences to explain which of the four major types of conflict is used. I partly used complete sentences to explain which of the four major types of conflict is used. Dialogue I clearly used complete sentences to describe two examples of dialogue connected to the conflict. two examples of dialogue connected to the conflict. Dialogue ing Conflict

5 I clearly used complete sentences to explain how the examples of dialogue connect to the conflict. I partly used complete sentences to explain how the examples of dialogue connect to the conflict. Rising Action I clearly used complete sentences to describe an important event of rising action in my an important event of rising action in my Rising Action Text the text to support an important event of rising action in my I partly provided a quote and page number to describe an important event of rising action in my Earned Points out of_ 50 Grade

1. How does Elisa feel about moving to the United States? Use two details from the story to support your response.

1. How does Elisa feel about moving to the United States? Use two details from the story to support your response. Name: Grade 5 Lesson 5 Date: Use the story titled Elisa s Diary by Doris Luisa Oronoz on pages 142-153 in your student reader to answer the questions below. Directions Read the story. Then answer questions