Echo Summary

Creating a plot diagram not only helps students learn the parts of the plot, but it reinforces major events and helps students develop a greater understanding of literary structures. Students can create a storyboard capturing the narrative arc in a work with a six-cell storyboard containing the major parts of the plot diagram. In this activity, students will create a visual plot diagram of major events in the entire story of Echo. Students should identify major turning points in the novel such as the Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution in all four stories from the book. To scaffold or differentiate this activity, teachers may ask students to illustrate the plot of only one story and include where they converge at the end. Pre made activities for this can be found on the main lesson plan page for Echo.

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Objective: Create a visual plot diagram for all four stories in Echo.

Student Instructions:

1. Separate the story into the Title, Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution.
2. Create an image that represents an important moment or set of events for each of the story components using appropriate scenes, characters and items.
3. Write a description of each of the steps in the plot diagram.