Setting For The Scarlet Ibis

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Activity Overview

A common use for Storyboard That is to help students create a plot diagram of the events from a novel. Non only is this a neat way to teach the parts of the plot, but information technology reinforces major events and help students develop greater understanding of literary structures.

Students can create a storyboard capturing the narrative arc in a novel with a 6-cell storyboard containing the major parts of the plot diagram. For each cell, have students create a scene that follows the story in sequence using: Exposition, Conflict, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution.

Example "The Scarlet Ibis" Plot Diagram

Exposition

The setting is in a southern US state, on a small plantation where the narrator and his new baby brother live.

Major Inciting Conflict

The narrator's petty brother, Doodle, is born with disabilities and wellness conditions. The narrator is unable to accept his brother'due south concrete challenges.

Rising Action

In one case the narrator realizes he is 'stuck' with Doodle, his pride convinces him to teach Doodle to be "normal". Once he successfully teaches Putter to walk, he believes it is possible to teach Doodle other things, and pushes him harder. One 24-hour interval during the summer, the family finds a cerise ibis that dies in their yard. Doodle for develops a connection with this bird and wants it cached.

Climax

On the last day of grooming, Doodle shows that he is too weak to continue training. The narrator is upset, and as they determine to go home, a thunderstorm rolls in. The narrator begins running abode, Putter, however, cannot go along up and calls out, "Brother, don't leave me."

Falling Action

The narrator turns to go dorsum to his blood brother, and finds him expressionless under a bush-league, in a similar position to the ibis.

Resolution

The narrator recalls how his selfish pride killed Doodle.

Student Instructions

Create a visual plot diagram of The Scarlet Ibis.

Separate the story into the Exposition, Conflict, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution.
Create an paradigm that represents an of import moment or set of events for each of the story components.
Write a description of each of the steps in the plot diagram.

Lesson Plan Reference

Mutual Core Standards

[ELA-Literacy/RL/9-10/one] Cite strong and thorough textual bear witness to back up analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text
[ELA-Literacy/RL/9-10/2] Make up one's mind a theme or central thought of a text and clarify in detail its development over the form of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text
[ELA-Literacy/RL/9-x/5] Analyze how an author'due south choices concerning how to construction a text, club events within it (e.one thousand., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such furnishings as mystery, tension, or surprise

Create a plot diagram for the story using Exposition, Conflict, Ascent Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution.

	Proficient 25 Points	Emerging 21 Points	Beginning 17 Points	Endeavor Over again 13 Points
Descriptive and Visual Elements	Cells have many descriptive elements, and provide the reader with a vivid representation.	Cells have many descriptive elements, but flow of cells may have been hard to understand.	Cells have few descriptive elements, or have visuals that make the piece of work confusing.	Cells take few or no descriptive elements.
Grammar/Spelling	Textables accept iii or fewer spelling/grammer errors.	Textables have four or fewer spelling/grammar errors.	Textables accept five or fewer spelling/grammar errors.	Textables have 6 or more spelling/grammar errors.
Bear witness of Endeavor	Work is well written and carefully thought out. Educatee has washed both peer and teacher editing.	Work is well written and carefully idea out. Student has either teacher or peer editing, but not both.	Educatee has done neither peer, nor teacher editing.	Work shows no evidence of any effort.
Plot	All parts of the plot are included in the diagram.	All parts of the plot are included in the diagram, but one or more than is confusing.	Parts of the plot are missing from the diagram, and/or some aspects of the diagram make the plot hard to follow.	Almost all of the parts of the plot are missing from the diagram, and/or some aspects of the diagram make the plot very difficult to follow.

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