Literature Notes: Story Elements - Plot

We are gearing up to being our literary analysis project.  Part of that is being able to understand and identify the elements of literature.  Instead of trying to do this along with a movie (which is how we learned it in high school and that has never made sense to me) we are learning each element through short stories and then we will apply all of them to a novel.

We started out our study by reading Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (or The Mongoose and the Snake as Doodble Bug remembers it from childhood) and learning about plot and conflict.

We created a plot line example and learned about the different parts of plot.  Then, after reading the story we created a layered book version of a plot line.

We learned about conflict and the different kinds of conflict that can be found in literature.  Then, we created a flap book that shows what kind of conflict our story has and inside we described the conflict and told whether it was internal or external.

We kept all of our created a cover for our mini books as well illustrating the story that we read to accompany the lesson.

We typically spend a week on each literature selection - covering the prereading notes and reading on day 1, mini books and notes on day 2, workbook pages on days 3 and 4.