PLOT DIAGRAM
Grade 6 – Term 3 – Final Exam Revision
Learning Outcomes
◦ Identify and analyse the rising action and climax of the plot of a fictional story.
Examples of the Plot Diagram in Movies
Plot
◦ A plot is the sequence of events that a writer used to tell a story.
◦ A plot must present a problem in the story that will challenge the main character to try to solve it.
◦ Plots will have a beginning, middle and an end.
◦ The Plot Diagram:
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Let’s come up with a short
story after we cover each part
of the plot diagram.
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The questions on the slide will
guide us.
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◦ The beginning of the story where the writer builds background by introducing
the characters and setting.
Exposition ◦ This part can be very descriptive and slow.
1 Think about a main character.
Let’s say they are an 11-year-old kid.
What family do they come from?
What are they like?
Where are they from?
What year is it?
Who are the other characters found in the
story?
Important: details + imagination!
◦ It is the problem that the main character faces.
◦ This problem makes their life difficult and things
Conflict start to change from here on.
◦ Types of Conflict:
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Which type of conflict does the
main character face?
How does the conflict happen in
the story?
Rising
Action How does the main character try
to solve the problem?
How is the main character
feeling?
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◦ Events start to get more tense as the main character tries to solve the problem
but fails.
◦ The situation keeps on getting worse for the main character.
◦ The peak of the story, where the main character is fighting against the conflict.
◦ The most suspenseful and interesting part of the story.
Climax ◦ Turning point of the story: the character will make difficult decision to solve
the problem and will not be the same. The story will take a different direction
after this point.
How is the main character
fighting against the conflict?
What difficult decision does
he/she make?
◦ The results of the climax, moving towards the ending.
Falling ◦ Events start to slow down once again.
Action
Did the main character solve the
problem or did he/she lose?
How have things changed for the
main character now that the
problem is over.
Did the story have a happy or a
tragic ending?
Resolution How has the main character
grown after the story?
How is his/her life now at the
end of the story?
6 ◦ End of the story.
◦ The main character either solved the conflict, escaped or was lost. The story
could end either happily or tragically.
◦ The life of the main character returns to normal, but he/she is not the same;
he/she has grown after the story.
Plot Diagram
Plot: the series of events that make up a story; storyline. The turning point of the
story where the problem
reaches its peak.
Climax
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Examples of Rising Action and Climax in
Wonder
1. Draw the plot diagram in your copybooks.
2. Use the Wonder book to search for 3 examples of rising action and the climax of the story.
Rising Action: Climax:
- Auggie starts to go to On Halloween, August
school and has to deal Climax happily goes to school,
with people’s stares and
whispers. only to find out that Jack
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Exposition Resolution
What makes a hero?
https://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=Hhk4
N9A0oCA&t=1s&ab
_channel=TED-Ed
◦ Watch the following
video which
explains how most
fictional stories
follow the same
general storyline
