Notes For English 1

Plot: What happens in a story from beginning to end.

Parts of the Plot: Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution (Denoument)

Exposition: Background information on the characters and their lives. This is also where we get the problem of the story.

Rising Action: Events that move the story along

Climax: Turning point of the story; where the story changes

Falling Action: the story begins winding down towards the end.

Resolution (Denoument): The problem of the story gets resolved; THE END

Protagonist: Main character; person with the problem to solve

Antagonist: Person who stands in the protagonist's way; tries to stop the protagonist from succeeding.

July 1st: Parts of Speech, coherence and unity.

Parts of Speech review: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Try to make it to a million!

Paragraph Coherence Practice
Put the sentences in order to make a coherent paragraph.


Sentence Completion
Match the sentence halves together to make a logical sentence.

Try some of my older games and quizzes!
English 1

English 2

Day Two

Parts of Speech Jeopardy!
Single Player or Two Player Jeopardy style game with Parts of Speech!

Using IS and ARE correctly
Choose which form of the verb "To be" for each sentence

Sentence building, word order, and punctuation
Put these punctuation marks, words, phrases, and clauses in order to make a sentence.

Day One

Run On Sentence or Complete Sentence?
Identify if each sentence is a run on sentence or a complete sentence.

Identifying Sentences, Run-ons, and Fragments
Identify each sentence as complete, run-on, or a fragment

Adjectives and Adverbs Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
Find the adjective or adverb in each sentence. Or, choose which word is not an adjective or adverb.