Literary Conflict in Midnight Without a Moon

Activity Overview

Literary conflicts are important for students to be able to identify as they read stories. The conflicts that the main character faces help drive the story forward. In this activity, students will create a storyboard illustrating examples of literary conflict in Midnight Without a Moon. Having students choose an example of each literary conflict is an excellent way to reinforce the lesson, and gives the students a chance to creatively show what they have learned.

Midnight Without a Moon Conflict Examples

Character vs. Character: Rose struggles with Ma Pearl. Ma Pearl is mean and abusive, and makes Rose feel awful about herself.

Character vs. Self: Rose suffers from extreme low self esteem due to her grandmother’s constant mocking of how dark her skin is.

Character vs. Nature: Rose suffers greatly due to the extreme Mississippi summer heat while working in the fields.

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Objective: Create a 3 cell storyboard that describes and illustrates the literary conflicts in Midnight Without a Moon.

Student Instructions:

Click “Start Assignment”.
Write a conflict in each heading.
Create an illustration that represents each heading using appropriate scenes, characters, and items.
Write a short summary of each conflict the space below the illustration.

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Lesson Plan Reference

Grade Level 6-8

Difficulty Level 2 (Reinforcing / Developing)

Type of Assignment Individual

Type of Activity: Types of Literary Conflict

Common Core Standards

[ELA-Literacy/RL/6/3] Describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution

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	Proficient 5 Points	Emerging 3 Points	Beginning 1 Points
Explanation	The descriptions of the conflicts are clear and at least two sentences.	The descriptions of the conflicts can be understood but it are somewhat unclear.	The descriptions of the conflicts are unclear and are not at least two sentences.
Illustrations	The illustrations represent the descriptions using appropriate scenes, characters and items.	The illustrations relate to the descriptions, but are difficult to understand.	The illustrations do not clearly relate to the descriptions.
Evidence of Effort	Work is well written and carefully thought out.	Work shows some evidence of effort.	Work shows little evidence of any effort.
Conventions	Spelling, grammar, and punctuation are mostly correct.	Spelling, grammar, and punctuation are somewhat correct.	Spelling, grammar, and punctuation are mostly incorrect.