What are the different parts in a
story?
In this lesson, you will learn how to
identify different parts of a story by
using a plot development chart.
Let’s Review
When conflict has escalated
to cause a permanent change
in main character
When conflict
escalates
CLIMAX
Brings story to an
end
A Common Mistake
Not thinking about typical plot development to
help understand a story.
CLIMAX
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I wonder what will
happen to Arachne?
“You must not let your
ambition soar too high, or
boast that your work
exceeds that of the gods,”
the hunched old woman told
Arachne. “If you dream that
one day you might equal
Athena, the greatest of all
craftswomen, you have
committed a punishable
crime.”
Conflict Developing
1. A disguised Athena warns
Arachne.
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I wonder who will
win the contest?
Conflict Developing:
The goddess, without
hesitation took her place at
a loom by Arachne’s side.
The two women, one
mortal one immortal, went
to work and wove through
the long night.
1. A disguised Athena warns
Arachne.
2. Athena enters a weaving
contest with Arachne.
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Conflict Developing
Unable to contain her
anger any longer, Athena
threw aside her boxwood
shuttle5and ripped
Arachne’s gorgeous
cloth to shreds.
1. A disguised Athena warns
Arachne.
2. Athena enters a weaving
contest with Arachne.
3. Athena rips Arachne’s cloth
to shreds.
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“ For evermore, Arachne,
you and your descendants
shall live only to weave.”
By this curse, the fair mortal
of Lydia morphed into an
eight-legged spider, …
Hmm…remember the climax
of a story happens when there
is a change in the main
character
Permanent change in Main
Character:
Arachne morphed to spider
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…doomed to weave delicate
and beautiful wonders,
unmatched by any, for all
eternity.
Bringing the story to an end
Arachne and descendants
doomed to weave for eternity.
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Athena morphs
Arachne into spider
Climax
3. Athena shreds
Arachne’s cloth
2. Athena + Arachne
enter contest against
each other
1. Disguised
Athena warns
Arachne
Arachne + descendants
doomed to weave as
spiders for eternity.
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1
Pause when you come to
text that shows conflict or solution.
2
Determine if the text is part of the rising
action, climax or resolution.
3
Jot notes down in the correct places
on a plot development chart.
In this lesson, you have learned how to
define parts of a story by using a plot
development chart.
Guided Practice
Using a story you recently finished reading, complete
the plot development chart below.
Climax
Rising
Action 3
Rising
Action 2
Rising
Action 1
Resolution
Extension Activities
Create a short story of your own, and fill in the plot
development chart with the rising action, climax, and
falling action/resolution.
Climax
Rising
Action 3
Rising
Action 2
Rising
Action 1
Resolution
Quick
QuickQuiz
Quiz
Read the short story “X” and fill in the plot
development chart correctly:
Climax
Rising
Action 3
Rising
Action 2
Rising
Action 1
Resolution