Weep Not, Child Lesson Plan

Plot, Story and Timeline

Kind of Activity:

Long-term Project

Objective:

Students will be able to visualize the plot of the story, and know the difference between plot and story.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.5

Structure:

Discuss the difference between plot and story, plot being the way the author has decided to arrange events in the story, story being all that we infer (from the past, present and future) as a result of knowing about events described in the text. Discuss who, other than the narrator, we can attribute to telling us "more of the story" than is included in the plot. Are certain characters "telling the story" too? Use the...