Unit 5: Ball Hawk

Unit 5

Plot Elements

Most stories unfold in a series of events, known as a plot. Important elements of the plot include setting—the time and place of a story’s action, and conflict—the struggle between opposing forces. Most plots unfold in five stages:

The exposition introduces characters, setting, and conflict. The rising action presents complications. The climax is the moment of greatest interest. The falling action brings the story to a close. The resolution is the conflict’s final outcome.

Analyze Conflict

The plot of a story usually centers on a conflict, or struggle between opposing forces. The actions that characters take to solve the conflict build toward a climax—the turning point of the story. A story’s main conflict may be either external or internal.

An external conflict is a struggle against an outside force. An internal conflict is a struggle that occurs in a character’s mind.

Point of View

Third- person omnicient

Third person-limited

First-person

Narrator is outside the story. Narrator uses third-person pronouns such as he, she, him, her, and their. Reader is shown different characters’ thoughts and feelings.

Narrator is a story character. Narrator uses first-person pronouns such as I, me, mine, we, us, and our. Reader sees events and characters through the narrator’s eyes.

Narrator is outside the story. Narrator uses third-person pronouns such as he, she, him, her, and their. Reader sees events and characters through one character’s eyes.

Genre: Informational Text

Informational Text: -provides factual information -presents evidence to support ideas -contains text features -includes newspapers, magazines, essays, etc.

Making Predictions

As you read nonfiction texts, you make educuated guesses about what the author will discuss which is called making predictions. As you read on, you may confirm or change your predictions. Identifying clues in text elements such as the following can help you make predictions: Text features: subheadings, bold faced words, and graphics. Structures: the way that text is organized on the page helps you predict what the author will explain next.

Purpose and Perspective

Here is how author's establish a purpose and perspective: Through diction: an author's word choice. Through syntax: the way an author arranges words. Through voice: the author's unique style. Through tone: the author's attitude towards a subject.

Author's Purpose: the reason an author writes a particular work. Perspective: the author's viewpoint of what he/she is writing about.

Deterime Central Ideas

In an informational text, a central idea, or main idea, is the most important idea about a topic. It may be stated directly in a sentence, or it may be implied. The central idea is often suggested by smaller key ideas, each developed in a paragraph or longer section of the work. Central ideas are supported by details or facts and other pieces of information that build upon and clarify the ideas.

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Analyze Organizational Structure

Effective informational writing almost always follows an organizational pattern, or structure. For example, an author may present information in chronological order (the time order in which events happened) or in order of importance.

Sometimes an author chooses a descriptive pattern, presenting various kinds of information about the topic—historical background, characteristics, examples, comments from experts, comparisons, and so on. To organize the information, the author may use subheadings.