THE ELEMENTS OF A STORY

hort Story Element	What is it?	Example
CHARACTER	The people of the story who carry out the action.	THE BOY THE TREE
THEME	The main idea is	FRIENDSHIP FOREVER AND AFTER
PLOT	it's where we identify the actions or the chapters of the story.	THE CHILDHOOD, THE YOUNGTH,ADULTHOOD,
SETTING	It's the part of the story where we identify the time, the environment,  and what there are around to the characters.	WHERE:THE FOREST WHEN:BOY'S LIFE WAS CARRY OUT.
CONFLICT	it's the drama and the most interesting part of a story where there are a disagreement for anything.	The tree was often forgotten by the boy and He didn´t realise about it after It was too late.

3. Listen and read this story:

4. Based on this story, fill in the third column of your chart (Point 2)

5. For the next class (Friday, February 15th) please read the following story:

You may Print it if you want to.

Vusi Makusi (http://www.eastoftheweb.com/cgi-bin/version_printable.pl?story_id=VusiMaku899.shtml)