In class today, students continued the analysis of genres and specifically focused on the interior to a story. Students trained their analyzation techniques in determining the difference between structure and content. The idea behind the structure of narrative is how narratives are shaped. Specifically, students talk about the story plot pertaining to:
- Exposition
- Conflict
- Rising Action
- Climax
- Falling Action
- Resolution
With this idea of structure to a narrative, a story can have different content in comparison to a story from the same genre, but same shape referring to story plot. Now content pertains to the key details within a story. In two adventure stories, students travel to find their missing classmates. In one of the stories, the students searching for classmates start to disappear while in the other story, the teacher is the one of the searching party who disappears. This difference doesn't affect the overall plot of the two stories, but sets the two stories apart. That is the difference in content in genres. After Mr. Rivers finished his explanation of the two crucial parts to a story, structure and content, the class then analyzed Netflix summaries of stories the students created out of their imagination yesterday. These summaries can be found on Google Classroom.
The picture you see below is a simplistic representation of a story plot. (FYI: Denouement is a french word describing the ending of a narrative, story, or play.) This representation is also known as the Freitag Arc.
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