We began today's class by meeting in our book circles. Each group read a next chunk and continued to ask questions, make connections and speak generally about what they thought was going on. I was SO impressed with the focus and conversation in these circles! We will continue reading the books next day.
Then, we began to look at some of the elements of fiction: in particular, we discussed protagonist, antagonist, internal conflict and external conflict. I shared definitions for these elements of fiction and then we worked to come up with examples of each of these from popular stories we have read or watched. We discussed how Harry Potter is the protagonist in the Harry Potter books, and Voldemort is an example of an antagonist. When Voldemort and Harry fight, that is an external conflict, and when Harry had to struggle with the death of one of his friends, that is an internal conflict.
We are going to watch an episode of The Simpson's next class, and discuss how these elements apply in that episode.
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