ELA1104-ABED_1: 1.4 Short Story Plot Elements

Step 1: Read the short story, "Lather and Nothing Else," written by Hernando Telez, on pages 342-346 in your Sightlines 10 textbook. Use your learned reading strategies to help understand the story's plot.

Step 2: Review the given plot diagram. Complete the worksheet in the format of your choice, where you will provide information for each label of the diagram, and will include a supporting quotation from the story, to prove each. Remember that all borrowed words or quotes must both open and close with quotation marks, and if taken from an assigned text, you must give the page number of the text in brackets following the quote.

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What will completing this "Elements of Plot Diagram" help you to know, understand, and do?

Know - you will know the terminology and correct organization of the elements of plot in text creation

Understand - will help you to recognize and understand that well written stories require purposeful and skillful planning/use of plot elements
Do -will enable you to analyze plot and to create texts using the elements of plot effectively