Station Eleven Plot Development

 

Performance Indicators:

 

P.S ELA-2 Reading Analysis: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.

A. Evaluate the relevant themes and synthesize how they are present in the novel in oral and written responses.
B. Interpret the implications of setting and circumstance.
C. Analyze the role of characters in the plot in oral and written responses.
D. Analyze important quotations from the text in oral and written responses.
E. Annotate the text.

P.S ELA-3 Reading Craft and Structure: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness or beauty of a text.

A. Understand SOAPSTone: Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject, Tone
B. Analyze the plot and/or design of the text, following shifts in time and place.

 

Book: Station Eleven | Hallie Shepherd

Station Eleven Pyramid Lesson

Your goal, in this class, is to pursue your fulfillment of emerging as an intellectual.  Intellect is often defined as the ability to reason and understand objectively.  In other words, intellect is not governed by emotion.

Intellectual themes in this course:
1.  A person’s strength is the source of their fundamental vulnerability.
2.  A writer knows their audience and tells them the truth.
3.  Humanity is almost exclusively a testimony of a man’s perspective.
4.  Fiction reveals that all readers have the same moral compass.
5.  Happiness results from hard work.
6.  The greatest miracle resulted from how something came from nothing, but the most important question that has occupied humanity is why did something come from nothing?

Following today’s class discussion use the list of events that you have outlined to develop the story’s structure according to Freytag’s pyramidal model.  You will not be able to include all of the developments revealed in the novel.  You are required to select the events that you feel are the most relevant according to Freytag’s model.  Select three of the most important events for the rising action while using one event for the other levels of the pyramid.  Your work may appear in the pyramidal fashion according to the Freytag model or you may list the summary in a linear style.  At the end of each summary include a selected passage from the novel (along with the page number in parenthesis where the passage was located). 

You may have to include a brief explanation of the event’s significance to the protagonist’s Kirsten) conflict in order to clarify your selection.  Any assignment which you submit should include the standard MLA heading.

The assignment is due on DAY 2 of the syllabus and is valued as a reading assignment.  Submit your Freytag’s Summary on Turnitin.

Station Eleven Graphic Novel