Students are going to answer these questions: [they will receive these questions along with the plot summaries they are going to analyze]. In the first part of the class it is important to have a discussion about the previous activity.
First of all, they are going to read aloud the questions they needed to answer in the previous class. While they answer them, it is important to point out some definitions of the genre, and make them reflect about the tasks they have already made and the following tasks. Now they are going to start thinking about the movie they are going to use for the plot summary they will have to do.
The task is: they need to choose one movie and write down as many things as they can remember about the movie: a brief summary of the story, the theme, characters, main scenes, what most called their attention, etc. Homework: You are going to research and find more technical information that you might not remember in class.
Next class you are going to start creating your own plot summary. After finishing it, you are going to submit your plot summary to imdb. This is very important for them to complete the task in the following classes. In this class, students are going to create the first version of their own plot summaries of a movie they have already watched. It is a way to review the concepts of what a plot summary is and also see if they understood what it is and how a plot summary is made].
Students are going to create a plot summary individually or in pairs. So they receive a sheet of paper to be completed in class with basic information of the movie they chose and a space for them to write down their plot summary.
They will use the information from their homework. Students hand in their texts at the end of the class to be corrected by the teacher. We start this class discussing the first version of their plot summaries. In a semicircle the group discusses what they have done so far and the doubts they had while they were writing their plot summaries.
They can express their opinions about what was interesting, hard or relevant for them. If they need, they can talk about their doubts individually later. They receive their first version of the plot summary with comments, suggestions and correction. The inciting incident is a singular event that "kicks off" the story and leads to the major conflict within the novel. This leads to the rising action, in which the story continues to build and eventually comes to a point where the main character might have to take drastic action -- or might miss her opportunity to do this.
For example, in Shakespeare's "Hamlet," the Danish prince discovers that his father was murdered by his own brother, which leads to the infamously tragic events to come. The revelations of the inciting incident and rising action result in events that may alter the future in unchangeable ways. A comprehensive plot summary defines the inciting incident, briefly describes it and outlines the events that lead to the highest point of action. All stories eventually reach a "point of no return," the climax.
The climax is an event that changes the course of a story, for better or worse. For example, the climax of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" happens when Romeo murders Juliet's cousin, Tybalt, in a duel. In your plot summary, define the consequences or results of this point in the plot.
Although Romeo and Juliet's romance had been forbidden, it becomes near impossible to maintain after Tybalt's death, since Romeo is banished to Mantua. Skip to navigation. When you underline and annotate a text, when you ask yourself questions about its contents, when you work out an outline of its structure, you are establishing your understanding of what you are reading.
When you write a summary, you are demonstrating your understanding of the text and communicating it to your reader. To summarize is to condense a text to its main points and to do so in your own words. To include every detail is neither necessary nor desirable. Instead, you should extract only those elements that you think are most important—the main idea or thesis and its essential supporting points, which in the original passage may have been interwoven with less important material.
Many students make the mistake of confusing summary with analysis. They are not the same thing. A summary, on the other hand, does not require you to critique or respond to the ideas in a text.
When you analyze a piece of writing, you generally summarize the contents briefly in order to establish for the reader the ideas that your essay will then go on to analyze, but a summary is not a substitute for the analysis itself. If you are writing a literature paper, for example, your teacher probably does not want you to simply write a plot summary. You may include some very brief summary within a literature paper, but only as much as necessary to make your own interpretation, your thesis, clear.
It is important to remember that a summary is not an outline or synopsis of the points that the author makes in the order that the author gives them. Instead, a summary is a distillation of the ideas or argument of the text. It is a reconstruction of the major point or points of development of a text, beginning with the thesis or main idea, followed by the points or details that support or elaborate on that idea.
If a text is organized in a linear fashion, you may be able to write a summary simply by paraphrasing the major points from the beginning of the text to the end.
However, you should not assume that this will always be the case. Not all writers use such a straightforward structure. They may not state the thesis or main idea immediately at the beginning, but rather build up to it slowly, and they may introduce a point of development in one place and then return to it later in the text.
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