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Teacher and students are reviewing story elements like Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution.
On the board is drawn the following figure:

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Teacher:

Sowhat does this remind you of?

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Student1:

A mountain.

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Teacher:

A mountain. Alrighty.So could someone tell me what is the first part of a story? Like what

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starts out a story usually? From here to here to here (points to diagram on board). Kyle?

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Student2: A problem?

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Teacher:

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Student3: A climax.

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Teacher:

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Student4: The characters?

A problem? OK. (Writes on board). Yes?


Climax. (Writes on board). That would be right up there.

10. Teacher:

OK. (Writes on board). The characters and problems and stuffwhat is that called? At the

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beginning of a story?

12. Student5: Introduction?


13. Teacher:

Introduction? Introductions a word for it. Theres another word that starts with an E. .

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The ex_______Jillian?

15. Student1: Exposition?


16. Teacher:

Its an exposition. Its this thing when youre introducing the characters and other stuff, so

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youre right when you say introduction but exposition is a better word for it if you want to

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get technical. Yes?

19. Student4:

The conflict?

20. Teacher:

A conflict. Thats also in the Exposition (writes). Its the main conflict of the story. OK, whats

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this then? Whats this part here? If we have the Exposition, if we have the climax, how do

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you get there? Yeah?

23. Student5:

Dont they call it Rising Action?

24. Teacher:

Rising Action. Good! OK, so you have your Exposition and your Rising Action, that gets you to

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your Climax. What happens after that? What happens after? Yes?

26. Student6:

Resolution?

27. Teacher:

Almost. Resolution is down here. After everything is said and done, thats the resolution. So

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what comes before the Resolution? If you have the Exposition, then the RISING action to get to

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the Climax, what comes before the resolution? Connor? What do you think? Whats the

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opposite of Rising?

31. Student2:

Falling.

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