A common use for Storyboard That is to help students create a plot diagram of the events from a story. Not only is this a great way to teach the parts of the plot, but it reinforces major events and help students develop greater understanding of literary structures.
Students can create a storyboard capturing the narrative arc in a story with a six-cell storyboard containing the major parts of the plot diagram. For each cell have students create a scene that follows the story in sequence using: Exposition, Conflict, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution.
The setting is the Carpathian woods on a snowy night.
Two men, Ulrich and Georg, involved in a family feud are out searching for one another when a tree falls on them, trapping them in the woods.
The men argue about whose servants will arrive first to save their master and kill the other man. After some time, Ulrich attempts to reconcile with Georg and offers some wine.
Georg accepts Ulrich’s offer to be friends, and the men reconcile.
They decide to call for help together.
No one will ever know the men have reconciled; instead of men coming to help them, a pack of wolves rush towards them.
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Student Instructions
Create a visual plot diagram of "The Interlopers".