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What is your favorite fairy tale?

The Five Elements of Plot

Climax

The turning point of the action in the story. It is the most exciting part of the story.

Falling Action

The queen has failed in attempting to kill Snow White several times. She takes matters into her own hands and poisons her with a deadly apple. Shortly after her "funeral," she is awakened by a kiss from the huntsman. She then forms an army to rebel against her stepmother.

The event(s) following the climax of the work that moves it towards its denouement or resolution.

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Snow White leads an army of her faithful followers to battle against the queen in her castle.

ELAGSE7RL3: Describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves towards a resolution

The Tale of the Three Brothers

Learning Targets

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Rising Action

I can read and identify the author's plot in a story.

I can analyze story elements in a text.

Climax

The beginning of a story that

gives important background information including the characters and setting.

The two older brothers' gifts transform into curses that lead to their deaths.

A series of incidents that

create suspense, interest, and tension in a story.

Exposition:

Rising Action:

Climax:

Falling Action:

Resolution:

The turning point and most exciting

part of the story.

Event(s) that lead(s) to

the resolution of the story.

Rising Action

Falling Action

The unraveling of the plot; the

Death tries to claim the third brother, but could not locate him for many years.

Death "rewards" them for outsmarting him. The oldest brother receives the most powerful wand in existence. The second brother receives a resurrection stone that can bring people back to life. The third brother asks for an invisibility cloak. The two older brothers begin to use their rewards for immoral reasons.

end result of the conflict; the conclusion.

Exposition

Resolution

The third brother dies from old age, rather than from greed and selfishness.

A series of incidents beginning with the conflict that create suspense, interest, and tension in a story.

Three wizard brothers come across a bridge. They are unable to pass, so they use magic to reconstruct the bridge. Death appears and feels cheated by them.

References

Resolution

Exposition

The mirror tells the queen that she is no longer the "fairest of them all"because Snow White has become of age to claim that title. The queen sends a huntsman to kill her. The huntsman does not kill her, instead he protects her.

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Sanders, R. (2012). Snow white and the huntsman. Universal Pictures.

The sorting out or unraveling of a plot at the end of a story;

the conclusion of the story.

The beginning of a story that gives important background information including the characters and setting.

Snow White defeats her evil stepmother and takes her rightful place as Queen in her father's kingdom.

Snow White was orphaned at a young age because her stepmother murdered her father. Her stepmother is a vain woman that worships a mirror.

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