Activity+1.4

=August 22, 2017=

=Bellringer:= = Today's Concept: Tropes, Conventions, and Obligatory Scenes =

A **//trope//** is a plot device that is common in stories and not bound by genre. (a genre is a category of stories: action, suspense, fantasy, Science fiction)

A **//convention//** is a trope that usually occurs in a certain genre.

An **//obligatory scene//** is something that **//has//** to happen in each genre (think of the "red shirts" dying on away teams in the Star Trek TV series)

Today's question: Notice what happens in today's clip from Have Gun - Will Travel.

 * 1) Is it a trope, convention, or obligatory scene?
 * 2) What is it and where have you seen this before in literature?

Resource: Springboard pages for today's lesson.


Today we went to the computer lab to reset our passwords for MiDevice and began Activity 1.4.

We reviewed the chart of Visual Techniques on page 11.

Mr. Lawrence used his phone to shoot pictures in the room to illustrate the various visual techniques discussed in the graphic organizer on page 11.