1. Do Now: -Take out a pen/pencil
- Complete your “Do Now” slip you were given when
you walked in.
- Complete your “Do Now” slip you were given when December 10, 2012
you walked in.
2. Reinventing Options for Adolescents Deserving
Success
Success
• Do you deserve success?
• Why do you think we decided to compare our school to a road?
• What does the idea of a path have to do with learning?
• What path do you want to be on?
3. Roads are never built equally
• Some roads are rocky built over mountains.
• Some are paved well but some have
overgrowth and cracks.
• We all have obstacles that stand in the way of
us getting to our goals
!
4. Agenda - Monday December 10, 2012
• Read through the syllabus
• Discuss class rules and
expectations DEC
• Mini Lesson: What is PLOT
10
• Activity: Constructing a Life Map
• Exit Ticket
5. What is PLOT???????
•Plot is a literary term defined as the events that
make up a story.
•The Plot is the TIMELINE or PATH that
the characters are on.
•Plot points are significant events that change the
path the character is on.
6. Plot Points can be GOOD or BAD
•Just like characters, we all have our own plots and
obstacles that we face: We are all affected by low-
points and high points in our life. Our failures, our
sad moments, our accomplishments and successes.
7. For Example: Woody
Woody Buzz finds
accidentally Woody and Woody and
pushes Buzz plans on Buzz make The plot
out a bringing him up and plot works,
window, but back to to run away Woody and
is favorite show the from Sids Buzz stay
again! others friends and
the story
ends.
Woody is
given to
Andy
Woody is
“replaced”
as favorite But then the Buzz and
toy by Buzz other toys Woody end
blame up in the
Woody for claw game
“killing” Buzz and get
taken to
Sid’s house
8. Ms. Young’s Life Map
Lead in the
Brother born
school play! Sees first
in 1992 Broadway
Sister born 1994
show!!
in 1988
1998
Learns to
READ
Born in Breaks ankle
1986 badly while on
vacation
1996
Grandpa dies
in 1990
9. see ya mom
and dad!
flash forward... Moves into first
apartment
First
teaching job!
2006 Graduates
2008
COLLEGE!
Graduates
2008
High school
2004
Meets
BFF!
Totals first car Forgets to save
in accident 2004 money and moves
home. 2008
10. It’s YOUR turn...SHOW your story
• Include on YOUR life map:
• Important dates - birthdays, dates of people who passed away who were important
to you...
• Events that are important to you - the day you met your best friend, the day you
discovered your favorite thing to do, the first time you ever saw a movie...
• Goals for the future - When do you want to graduate? When do you want to get
your first job?
11. Exit Ticket
-What is plot?
-Why do stories have a plot?
-How do plot points help develop a
character?