Recently, in reading, we have been reviewing story elements (settings, characters, plot, sequence, events, etc) and then beefing them up a bit for fifth grade. We have taken these elements and added new, Middle and High School, Vocabulary to them such as, Exposition, Conflict, Climax, Resolution, etc.
The week before break we focused on the four major types of character conflict.
Character vs. Character
Character vs. Self
Character vs. Nature
Character vs. Society
The week before break we focused on the four major types of character conflict.
Character vs. Character
Character vs. Self
Character vs. Nature
Character vs. Society
After learning about the four different types, the kids partnered up and chose one of the books that I had pre-chosen from the library. They then read the books aloud together around the room looking for the major conflict. We must remember, that a good book/story will have lots of little conflicts throughout to make the story more interesting, but we want to focus on the OVERALL conflict when summarizing.
After that, we came back together on the carpet and shared where we thought our books belonged on the conflict chart.
The kids really enjoyed reading the books aloud to their partners. During their independent reading time, when they are reading their own books, they decided what conflict was occurring in their stories and we recorded this in their notebooks.