Do Now: -Take out a pen/pencil- Complete your “Do Now” slip you were given when you walked in. December 10, 2012

ROADS =Reinventing Options for Adolescents Deserving Success

• Do you deserve success?

• Why do you think we decided to compare our school to a road?

• What does the idea of a path have to do with learning?

• What path do you want to be on?

Roads are never built equally• Some roads are rocky built over mountains.

• Some are paved well but some have overgrowth and cracks.

• We all have obstacles that stand in the way of us getting to our goals

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Agenda - Monday December 10, 2012

• Read through the syllabus

• Discuss class rules and expectations

• Mini Lesson: What is PLOT

• Activity: Constructing a Life Map

• Exit Ticket

10DEC

What is PLOT???????

•Plot is a literary term defined as the events that make up a story.

•The Plot is the TIMELINE or PATH that the characters are on.

•Plot points are significant events that change the path the character is on.

Plot Points can be GOOD or BAD

•Just like characters, we all have our own plots and obstacles that we face: We are all affected by low-points and high points in our life. Our failures, our sad moments, our accomplishments and successes.

For Example: Woody

Woody is given to

Andy

Woody is “replaced” as favorite toy by Buzz

Woody accidentally pushes Buzz

out a window, but is favorite

again!

But then the other toys

blame Woody for “killing”

Buzz

Buzz finds Woody and

plans on bringing him

back to show the

others

Buzz and Woody end up in the

claw game and get taken to

Sid’s house

Woody and Buzz make up and plot to run away from Sids

The plot works,

Woody and Buzz stay

friends and the story

ends.

Ms. Young’s Life Map

Born in 1986

Sister born in 1988

Grandpa dies in 1990

Brother born in 1992

Lead in the school play!

1994

Breaks ankle badly while on vacation

1996

Sees first Broadway

show!!1998

Learns to

READ

flash forward...Graduate

s High school 2004

Totals first car in

accident 2004

Moves into first

apartment2006

see ya mom and

dad!

Forgets to save money and moves home. 2008

First teaching

job! 2008

Graduates

COLLEGE!2008

Meets BFF!

It’s YOUR turn...SHOW your story

• Include on YOUR life map:

• Important dates - birthdays, dates of people who passed away who were important to you...

• Events that are important to you - the day you met your best friend, the day you discovered your favorite thing to do, the first time you ever saw a movie...

• Goals for the future - When do you want to graduate? When do you want to get your first job?

Exit Ticket

-What is plot? -Why do stories have a plot? -How do plot points help develop a character?