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Mainpoints
This video outlines elements of a plot to identify the main events of a story.
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Interweaving Plots
This video explores the concept of intertwining plot lines in storytelling. The video highlights how authors can effectively bring together multiple plot lines, demonstrate character development, and convey the underlying themes of the...
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Composing a Narrative
The video provides a step-by-step guide on how to construct a compelling narrative by comparing it to climbing a mountain. It emphasizes the importance of structuring a story with key elements like exposition, rising action, climax,...
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Tracking important events and characters in 'Animal Farm'
Pupil outcome: I can track the main events and characters of 'Animal Farm' and link to Orwell’s purpose. Key learning points: - Orwell uses key plot points in the novella to present his themes. - Freytag’s pyramid is a useful tool to...
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The five part narrative structure
Pupil outcome: I can plan a narrative using a five part structure. Key learning points: - The structure of a narrative means how the plot is organised - its sequence. - Readers need to feel that the structure of a story has been planned....
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Planning a narrative using the five part narrative structure
Pupil outcome: I can plan a well-structured piece of narrative writing inspired by a character from a story I have read using single paragraph outlines. Key learning points: - The 5 part narrative structure divides a story into:...
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Planning a fairy tale about a social issue
Pupil outcome: I can use the conventions of fairytales to plan a story about a social issue. Key learning points: - Fairy tales have specific conventions including noble heroes/heroines, magical transformations and happy endings. -...
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'The Twisted Tree': understanding narrative arcs
Pupil outcome: I can understand the arc of a narrative and how the plot of 'The Twisted Tree' fits within it. Key learning points: - Lots of stories, particularly fables and fairy tales, fit into a traditional narrative arc. - A...
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'Othello' and Shakespeare's conventions of tragedy
Pupil outcome: I can explore Shakespeare's structural conventions of tragedy in the play. Key learning points: - Shakespeare's tragedies, like many Jacobean tragedies, focus on the consequences of the disruption of social order -...
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Introduction to 'Othello' and plot exploration
Pupil outcome: I can understand the plot and context of ‘Othello’. Key learning points: - Iago is angry that he has been passed over for promotion, so pretends to love Othello whist plotting his downfall - Iago tells Desdemona's father...
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Planning outstanding narratives
Pupil outcome: I can plan an interesting narrative. Key learning points: - When writing a short story, we can condense the traditional narrative arc. - We need to craft for a believable unfolding of events for a short story. - In short...
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Stevenson’s use of structure in ‘Jekyll and Hyde’
Pupil outcome: I can write about the structure of ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ and how it links to key themes in the novella. Key learning points: - The power of human curiosity is key theme shown through the detective form and final narratives of...
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Planning the opening to an impactful narrative
Pupil outcome: I can plan the opening to an impactful narrative. Key learning points: - Stories might have an impact on someone's life by changing their perspective, or revealing something about humanity. - All stories are composed of...
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Writing a full narrative piece using the five part narrative structure
Pupil outcome: I can write a well-structured and developed piece of narrative writing inspired by a character from a story I have read. Key learning points: - The 5 part narrative structure divides a story into exposition, rising action,...
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'Macbeth': the play as a Shakespearean tragedy
Pupil outcome: I can explain how Macbeth meets the conventions of a Shakespearean tragedy. Key learning points: - Shakespeare’s tragedies often focus on the fall of noblemen - Shakespearean tragic heroes such as Macbeth, often fall...
Wonderscape
Exploring Plot: The Heart of Storytelling
This video breaks down the concept of plot, an essential component of storytelling, using the classic tale of Little Red Riding Hood as an illustrative example. It explains how plot structures a narrative and makes it compelling,...
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Unfolding Plot
Unfolding Plot describes how a given story's plot unfolds by retelling the story and citing events.
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Elements of Plot
Elements of Plot identifies the elements of plot, including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
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Elements of Plot: A Guilty Conscience
Elements of Plot: A Guilty Conscience identifies elements of plot, including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, found in the short story, A Guilty Conscience.
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Write a New Ending
“Write a New Ending” is a conceptual video that discusses the different parts of a story, with a focus on how to write a new ending for a familiar fairy tale.
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Components of Plot
Students will take a closer look at the elements of a successful narrative plot.
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Comparing Elements of Plot
“Comparing Elements of Plot” discusses the five elements of a plot and explains how each can be used when comparing and contrasting two folktales from different cultures.
The Learning Depot
Elements of Literary Fiction: Characters, Setting, Plot, Theme, and Point of View
Literary elements are the technical components in all narrative stories. They are the universal and essential elements of all narrative fiction. And all are integral to creating the basic structure of a story in an engaging, compelling,...
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#6 Elements of a Story--Characters, Setting, Plot & Theme (Reading Comprehension)
In this video, I teach you the elements of a story. I will cover characters, setting, plot and theme. You will understand the who of the story-the characters, the where and when of the story-the setting, the different plots of the plot,...