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Check Your Understanding
Narrative Writing Prompt
Create a plot for a story of your own that follows a rags-to-riches or hero quest plot line. The setting for your story can be any time or place and does not need to use typical fairy tale fantasy characters or magic. Make up and write at least seven events on the provided plot diagram. You might choose one of the following plot outlines and imagine how the story might develop.
• An unhappy young boy with three terrible older brothers is told he can become the eldest if he can outsmart them.
• A poor country girl saves a wealthy woman’s life and then their lives turn in the opposite direction.
• A sixth grader faces difficult choices when a story he writes about his hometown is made into a successful Hollywood movie.
• A musical group who can’t come up with a good song roam the city searching for inspiration.
my Notes
Plot Diagram
Climax
Conflict
Exposition
Resolution
Unit 1 • Stories of Change 57
Falling Action
Rising Action
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