Thursday, December 12, 2019

The Terror: Character Sketch and Plot Diagram

Goal: Answer Exploring the Depths questions in teams and come up with presentations for the class

 Agenda:
Journal
Character Sketch
Comic Strip Character Arc

1. Journal
If you were in Díaz's situation, would you have confronted your tormentors in the end? Why or why not?

 2. Character Sketch 
Yesterday we started working on this character sketch for middle school Junot Díaz:
Today your goal is to finish this character sketch and move on to creating a plot diagram that shows the events that lead to Díaz's development. 


 3. Plot Diagram 
A plot diagram is like the one pictured on the top of today's blog post. It shows:
  • Exposition (how the story gets set up for us) 
  • Rising Action
  • Climax
  • Falling Action
  • Resolution 
Your job is to identify each part of the plot diagram DIRECTLY IN YOUR TEXT COPY. Make notes that show each of those plot elements. This will help you to create your comic strip. 

4. Comic Strip Character Arc 
There are a few tools you can use to create your comic strip digitally, or you can draw by hand. Here are the digital tools:
Your comic strip should include:
  • All 5 plot elements
  • Junot's physical state
  • Junot's emotional state
  • How Junot changes over the course of the story
Here is how your comic strip will be graded:


Reminders: 
I am proud of you. Have a great day!
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