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Lesson 1 (from Paragraphs 1-14)
Objective
Students will analyze how an author brings together elements within the exposition stage of a plot arc to set up a complex world that will serve multiple functions as the story progresses.
Plot development is an incredibly important and multifaceted element of any story, and Jack Finney's story Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket is no exception. In particular, the exposition stage of a story about an ambitious young man who is fixated on upward mobility within his company must be effective in getting across to the reader an array of different characters, their personalities, their habits, their quirks, and any other information useful to setting up the world imagined by the author. In addition, an author's effective use of the exposition phase is crucial to setting up major themes of the work, in this case laying the framework for theme inclusions such as Existentialist ideals...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.4, 9-10.10, 11-12.3, 11-12.4, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.5, 11-12.5
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