Narrative Texts
Unit Essential Question: How do authors control plot, character, and language to communicate an engaging story and build theme?
Key Learning: Fiction consists of several major components (plot, character, theme, imagery) that authors manipulate to communicate an engaging story as well as communicate a/their understanding of the world or issues within it.
LEQ 1: How do authors structure a text to create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise to create theme?
Vocabulary: plot, setting, exposition, complications, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement, time manipulation, conflict, external & internal conflict.
LEQ 2: How do authors create different characters to serve the story and its purpose?
Vocabulary: characterization, direct characterization, indirect characterization, static character, dynamic character, protagonist, antagonist, round character, flat character
LEQ 3: Why do authors carefully control word choice?
Vocabulary: tone, mood, connotation, setting
Unit Essential Question: How do authors control plot, character, and language to communicate an engaging story and build theme?
Key Learning: Fiction consists of several major components (plot, character, theme, imagery) that authors manipulate to communicate an engaging story as well as communicate a/their understanding of the world or issues within it.
LEQ 1: How do authors structure a text to create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise to create theme?
Vocabulary: plot, setting, exposition, complications, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement, time manipulation, conflict, external & internal conflict.
LEQ 2: How do authors create different characters to serve the story and its purpose?
Vocabulary: characterization, direct characterization, indirect characterization, static character, dynamic character, protagonist, antagonist, round character, flat character
LEQ 3: Why do authors carefully control word choice?
Vocabulary: tone, mood, connotation, setting