story elements.

Although "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" is really non-fiction and an autobiography,.

Maya Angelou did say that some of the stories

were fiction that she made up within the autobiography, so before we start the

PowerPoint, I'm going to shut my picture off, so you can pay attention to the PPT. and not my

beautiful face. OK this is

PPT. we are going to go over about story elements again about story elements. And

today, we are going to talk about story elements even though most of them

are when to talk about elements of fiction

even though

"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" is non-fiction she does have

fiction in it. I'm repeating myself, but I wanted to make sure we did that.

Again, she had written an autobiography

If I can just spell it here

autobiography- which means it's a book she wrote about

herself.

On the slide we see Setting. Setting is the Time and Location.

Where is the novel taking place? We're going to find out that it takes place

in the South and as you do the reading for this week

you will understand that in the time that the book was written and in the

location the South life was not too good for black people

for African-Americans. So, that's why I assigned the

readings I have to activate prior your knowledge so that you have a better understanding

of what Maya was going through as she grew up where she grew up.

To further explain this, we can look at setting:

A- place and B- time, which we have already spoken about. Then we have weather conditions,

social conditions, mood, or atmosphere. What I really want to concentrate

is on D- the social conditions.

And again, as we read through

the literature to activate of our knowledge

will understand the hardships that she and other people

of her color had to endure. Next we have

"Plot" Plot is the beginning, the middle, and the end. If we go to a movie, we expect to see a beginning

and a middle.

If the movie were to cut off twenty minutes before the end of the

movie and we didnt see the end, we'd all be a little upset

the plot is very important. What does the plot entail or contain?

Here you have the introduction the beginning,

the rising action, where the conflict

really starting to get good, and the climax where everything

happens comes to end, the falling

action is what happens after we have we the climax

how things start to unravel themselves

or begin to resolve themselves, and then we have the conclusion.

As you reading through "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"

make sure you pay attention to this because in the discussion boards you will have to answer questions

pertaining to these 5 things. Next we have the Characters.

They break this down into 2 points 1- the person in a work of fiction.

excuse me, or as I said here

this is basically an autobiography but we are going to have characters and then 2-

The characteristics of a person. What are they like? Then we are going go into a little further

description on the next slide of

round or dynamic characters etc. Characters can be broken down into three

points

1- Individual may be the round many-sided. They have

complex personality. I think as you read the

novel. you will find out that Maya, or in the book her name is

Marguerite; she is very complex. 2-Developing

their dynamic,they have a lot of personalities- they are going through change.

We may like some of the changes and we may not. 3- Static

it's the stereotype this person is not going to change at all.

They're just going to stay the same. Let's go to the next slide.

"Conflict" Conflict is what happens with towards the end of the

novel, or toward the end of the

movie; it's when everything comes to a head or a point. 1- External you can

have an external conflict which means something's happening to you on the

outside? 2- Internal are you growing, are you going

through something inside, are you depressed? Or maybe you

overcoming an addiction? Maybe in some novels

the main character has to overcome both Internal and External Conflicts.

Conflicts can be broken down into 4 types you can have 1- Man against Man or

Woman against Woman, which is the physical.

2- Man vs. Circumstances- what's going on is it

their fate? But, what's going on in their lives? Can they

over come it? 3- Man/or Woman vs. Society

Are they slaves trying to overcome

slavery? Are they gay people who want

equal rights or who want to marry? 4-

Man vs. Himself/Herself are they having struggles within? This has to do with the internal

conflicts that many people go through. On the next

slide, we have the "Theme." The Theme is the overall

controlling idea. It's almost like the topic sentence of a essay. What is the author want us to take away from this?

What are they trying to get across overall? Here are some common themes that

we can see in books and movies. The 1- Things are not always as they appear to be

2- Love is blind 3- Believe in yourself 4- People are afraid of change

5- Don't judge a book by its cover

These are some very common Themes that we see in movies, TV and

books that we read. Then we have the "Point of View"

Whose eyes are we seeing this story through? Is it a Innocent Eye

maybe from a child? Stream Conscious-

listening to the head or emotions to one of

the characters go through. Is it told

First Person Do we see I I I. It's a autobiography

the book we're reading, so maybe it's in first-person. Is it

Omniscient, excuse me, Which means does the narrator

know everything that's going on? Are they all powerful?

Do they know what everyone is thinking?

Then we have the Omniscient Limited and that's told in 3rd

person. And they don't know what's going on.

They only know what they know from their Point of View. Okay, I hope you

understand and I think most of you knew these elements of

literacy anyway or fiction and

this is the bibliography or what we would call it for our MLA formatting

work cited. So always give credit if you borrow things. Okay, I hope this presentation helped.

Please watch it or review if you need to again because

you will see questions on the next quiz. Thank you.