Plot is the main events of a story, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence of events. This article is for elementary school teachers teaching the parts of a story to their students.
Holes BME Summary example. Help students understand parts of a story by creating storyboards!
Storyboard Text
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BEGINNING
• Stanley Yelnats is introduced. • He is bullied at school. • On his way home he is hit by a pair of shoes.
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BEGINNING
• Stanley Yelnats is arrested for stealing the shoes.• His dad is a struggling inventor and is too poor to hire a lawyer. • Stanley is found guilty.
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MIDDLE
• Stanley Yelnats is sent to Camp Green Lake.• He is placed in Tent D• All the boys are forced to dig holes. • We learn that Stanley thinks his family is cursed.• One day Zero runs away and Stanley goes after him.
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MIDDLE
• Stanley and Zero survive the dessert eating peach preserves and onions. • The reader learns the curse is broken when Stanley carries Zero to the top of God's Thumb.• They go back dig for what the warden wants.
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END
• Stanley Zero find buried treasure.• There luck turns around.• They get out of Camp Green Lake!
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END
• Stanley's father finds a cure for foot odor and becomes rich.• Zero who was once an orphan is reunited with his mother.• Stanley built some confidence and now has friends.