This slideshow lesson explains rising action in fiction.

This is a PDF of a ReadWriteThink plot structure diagram chart form for students to use on short stories. It includes exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, theme, and protagonist and antagonist.

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Notes that introduce complication in plot and show examples of how the conflict becomes more complicated throughout the rising action of a story. Examples are provided from Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and Virginia Woolf's "The Duchess and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of four lesson plans designed to teach learners to predict problems and solutions in fiction text and to identify the relationship between problems and character conflicts within a story....

Describes Hitler's actions after his release from prison in 1924, his political maneuvering, the organization of the Nazi Party, the formation of the Hitler Youth, the reorganization of the Nazi storm troopers, and how the improving...

Look globally at the rising population and understand the impact on the environment, water supply, forestry, and biodiversity through the article and its supporting resources.

Lesson teaches about Marie Curie and Chemistry. Lab activities include making slime, elephant toothpaste, and snow, and also a balloon rise.

Flooding due to climate change can have a devastating effect on people's lives. Set on the fictitious island of Watu, pupils explore how STEM skills can be used to help communities be better prepared for flooding. Students will work as a...

The rise in deer population is putting the animals in the way of harm from increased car accidents, damage to agricultural businesses as well as wildlife plant species, and ticks that cause things like Lyme disease. Take a look at...

Amphibians have a challenge to rise above and are unable to succeed without the help of a vision like Amphibian Ark. This program is viewed to be a global effort to protect amphibians from extinction and promote the benefits these life...

Overuse of fossil fuels has exploited the threat of global warming on Earth. This article features the details of the threat and provides additional resources.

Climate change affects the whole world, from the tropics to the poles. Through learning activities, students learn how weather over a long period of time describes climate, explore how sea level rise can affect coastal communities and...

This site provides background and current events information regarding the rise and fall of the Pinochet regime in Chile.

A four question matching and multiple choice test over plot elements including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.

Breaks down the plot of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar into the introduction, rising action, the climax, the resolution, and the conclusion. Also describes how time and place are managed by Shakespeare.RL.9-10.5 text structure effects

Students will gain an understanding of how Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) have faced physical and verbal attacks due to unjustly being blamed for the COVID-19 pandemic. They will also learn how the AAPI community has taken...

Chapter from a novel and images that illustrate black political action in late-nineteenth-century America. Frances Harper's 1892 novel Iola Leroy, is examined, covering topics of white supremacy and racial justice.

A companion website to a documentary on the rise of pro-democracy movements in Morocco during the 1990s.

This is a PDF Fable Chart designed for students to complete as they read a fable; it includes the title and author, the animal character, human characteristics, the individual elements of a short story, and the moral or lesson.

Plots have momentum or a forward motion. In this lesson, we will isolate and discuss specific plot scenes from several works of fiction. You will learn how each scene moves the plot forward toward the resolution.

A slide show with ten slides about the parts of a plot development: exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.

A slide show with twenty-one slides explaining elements of plot including: characters, setting, exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution.

A test with eleven multiple choice questions on plot terms including: plot, introduction, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, conclusion/resolution, sub-plot, parallel episode, flashback, and foreshadowing.