Denisovich Jigsaw Plot T he plan scheme or main story of a literary or dramatic work as a play novel or short story It is also helpful to think of plot elements introduction any foreshadowing rising action climax falling action and resolution ID: 467410
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One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich
JigsawSlide2
Plot
T
he
plan, scheme, or main story of a literary or dramatic work, as a play, novel, or short story
.
It
is also helpful to think of
plot elements
: (introduction, any foreshadowing, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution).
The Transformers
movies are terrible—all special effects– not plot. If there is any story in the films, it all just leads to machines exploding against other machines while humans do a lot of running.Slide3
Character
Character: an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story). Example: Harry Potter
Characterization: The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential feature. Example: Your parent’s characterization of you as intelligent but shy
.
Character is revealed by actions, thoughts, words, and dialogue.Slide4
Setting
The surroundings or environment of anything. Includes both location and time. Example: The setting of New Zealand as Middle Earth is essential in Peter Jackson’s trilogy adaption of
The Lord of the Rings
.
Setting is the physical world, the time, and the social environment.Slide5
Motif
Motif: In a narrative, any recurring element that has symbolic significance.
One recurring motif
of The
Dark Night Rises
are the bats, and how they rise, and Batman upward action (from the prison) and how he rises to become who he is suppose to become
.
Look for a physical, material object or action that reoccurs.Slide6
Plot Experts
Excerpt
– p. 7: “At that very moment…. ,said the Tartar lazily.
”
Read
/Consider the passage in the full context of the story.
1. Draw: Illustrate
the
action of
this passage.
One
Paragraph: How does this excerpt relate to
moving the story forward?
2.
One
Paragraph: Why
is there good dramatic tension in this excerpt? What had
Shukhov
been expecting, and why did it increase tension that he had been wrong
?
3. One Power
Paragraph: What does
Shukhov
mean
when he says “With work—that wasn’t half bad. They gave you hot food and you had no time to start thinking. Real jail was when you were kept back from work.” How does this revelation serve
the story and the characterization of
Shukhov
in the
novel?
Claim Sentence Frame: The fact that
Shukhov
is allowed to work as punishment instead of detention serves the story because _________________________.Slide7
Character Experts
“Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality; when you worked for a fool you simply gave him eyewash.”
p
. 12
Read/consider the quote in the full context of the story.
1. Draw:
Pick
out any figurative language to illustrate.
2. One
Paragraph: How does this relate to the story/plot: What are the circumstances leading
Shukhov
to ponder the nature of work?
3. One
Power
Paragraph
: What do you think the quote means/ what does it
prove
about
Shukhov’s
character
?
Sentence Frame for Your Claim:
Shukov
may be described as ________________.Slide8
Setting Experts
They sat in the cold mess hall, most of them eating with their hats on, eating slowly, picking out putrid little fish from under leaves of boiled black cabbage and spitting the bones out on the table. When the bones formed a heap and it was the turn of another squad, someone would sweep them off and they’d be trodden into a mush on the floor. But it was considered bad manners to spit the
fishbones
straight out on the floor.
Two rows of trestles ran down the middle of the hall and near one of them sat
Fetiukov
of the 104
th
. It was he who was keeping
Shukhov’s
breakfast for him.
Fetiukov
had the last place in his squad, lower than
Shukhov’s
. From the outside, everyone in the
s
quad looked the same—their numbered black coats were identical—but within the squad there were great distinctions. Everyone had his grade. Buinovsky, for instance, was not the sort to sit keeping another zek’s bowl for him. And Shukhov wouldn’t take on any old job either. There were others lower than him. p. 13
Read/Consider the passage in the full context of the story
.
Draw: Illustrate
the setting of this passage.
One
Paragraph: Why would it matter, in these conditions, whether or not the prisoner’s spit
fishbones
directly onto the floor?
One Power
Paragraph: What does
Shukhov
mean when he says “There were other’s lower than him”? How does the author use the setting of the dining hall to
illustrate character?
Claim Sentence Frame: The setting of the eating hall helps to illustrate character because ________________________.Slide9
Motif Experts
Several of the squad leaders who were on their way to the P.P.D had gathered near the pole with the thermometer, and one of the younger ones, a former Hero of the Soviet Union, shinnied up it and wiped of the instrument.
The others shouted advice from below: “See you don’t breathe on it. It’ll push up the temperature.”
“Push it up? Not
f
*
cking
likely.
My
breath won’t have any effect.”
Tiurin
of the 104
th
—
Shukhov’s
squad—was not among them.
Shukhov put down the pail, tucked his hands into his sleeves, and watched with interest.The man up the pole shouted hoarsely: “Seventeen and a half. Not a damn bit more.”And taking another look to be sure, slid down.‘Oh, it’s cockeyed. It always lies,” someone said. “Do you think they’d ever hang one up that gave the true temperature?” pp. 9-10
Read/consider the passage in the full context of the story.
1. Draw:
Pick
out any figurative language to illustrate.
2. One
Paragraph:
What
are the circumstances leading to this moment. Why would
Shukhov
stop and take such interest?
3.
Power
Paragraph: How does
this relate to a motif in the book, and what one aspect of the the book does the motif symbolize?
Claim Sentence Frame: One recurring motif in
Ivan
would be the __________ that likely represents _________________.