Creative Writing Workshop Lesson 4: Plot
Livia Blackburne
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Grade Levels
6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Standards
CCSSRL.6.3
CCSSRL.6.5
CCSSRL.7.3
CCSSRL.8.3
CCSSRL.9-10.5
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Pages
44 pages
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Hi! I'm Livia Blackburne, author of the NY Times bestselling young adult novel Midnight Thief. In July of 2015, I ran a week long creative writing camp for middle and high school students. We had a ton of fun, and the students wrote some great short stories and novellas! After the camp, I revised myPrice $20.00Original Price $25.50Save $5.50
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Lesson four is about plot. What drives a plot and keeps the reader engaged? Students will learn basic plot structure, from inciting incident to climax, as well as tips for organizing everything in between. Then, they’ll draw plot charts for their own stories.
This unit is part of a multi-installment series on creative writing, but it can also stand alone. The writing exercises do assume that the students already have some idea of the story they wish to write. The idea doesn't have to be well developed, since the purpose of this lesson is to help them flesh it out. That said, if students need help coming up with ideas from scratch, I recommend Lesson Two: Freewriting and Idea Generation.
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Or check out individual units below. (The first one is free!)
1) Introduction to Storytelling (Free download)
2) Freewriting and Idea Generation
3) Building Strong Characters
4) Plot
5) Setting and Description
6) Revision
7) Book Cover Design
Lesson four is about plot. What drives a plot and keeps the reader engaged? Students will learn basic plot structure, from inciting incident to climax, as well as tips for organizing everything in between. Then, they’ll draw plot charts for their own stories.
This unit is part of a multi-installment series on creative writing, but it can also stand alone. The writing exercises do assume that the students already have some idea of the story they wish to write. The idea doesn't have to be well developed, since the purpose of this lesson is to help them flesh it out. That said, if students need help coming up with ideas from scratch, I recommend Lesson Two: Freewriting and Idea Generation.
GET THE ENTIRE BUNDLE AND SAVE OVER 20%!
Or check out individual units below. (The first one is free!)
1) Introduction to Storytelling (Free download)
2) Freewriting and Idea Generation
3) Building Strong Characters
4) Plot
5) Setting and Description
6) Revision
7) Book Cover Design
Total Pages
44 pages
Answer Key
N/A
Teaching Duration
1 hour
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Standards
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CCSSRL.6.3
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 toward a resolution.
CCSSRL.6.5
Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.
CCSSRL.7.3
Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).
CCSSRL.8.3
Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
CCSSRL.9-10.5
Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
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