Plot Map Diagrams

What is it about a story that makes us want to keep reading it? 

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Two other ways at looking at how most stories are now written: (from http://yomeketa.com/eng104/homework/lecture/lecture5.html

ABCD(E) Plot Analysis

Here's another fairly practical way to think about how most stories are laid out, actual paragraph by paragraph rather than the chronological plotline — ABCD:

Action = rising action / most of Aristotle's middle / in media res
Back Story = exposition, ending with inciting incident / Aristotle's beginning
Change = the climax / as seen in Aristotle
Denouement = duh / Aristotle's ending

Or, if you want to impress your friends, try ABCDE:

Action = rising action / most of Aristotle's middle / in media res
Back Story = exposition, ending with inciting incident / Aristotle's beginning
Crisis = the moment of crisis or recognition that precedes the climax, from Aristotle's middle
Decision = the climax, when a character does something that changes everything / Aristotle's climax
Ending = denouement and resolution / Aristotle's ending

Reading Log for the Rest of the Semester

Reading Log for the Rest of the Semester (The Rest of Term 3) -- These are blue. There are extras in the file at the back of the classroom. These were handed out March 3/4, and students who had been absent were provided with copies. Students may read almost any narrative -- graphic novels, novels, etc.

Name: ___________________ Per: ________

(Remainder of) Term 3 Reading Log

Book Title: ___________________________________________
Author: _______________________________________
Genre: ________________________________
# Pages: _________________

Overall:
Introduction/Expostion: ___________________________

Rising Action: ___________________________

Conflict: ________________________

Climax ________________________

Denoument_____________________


Each Time you Read:
Date: Pages: What happened: