A knowledge and skills statement is a broad statement of what students must know and be able to do. It generally begins with a learning strand and ends with the phrase “The student is expected to:” Knowledge and skills statements always include related student expectations.
Glossary Support for ELA.8.7.B
an element of plot when the opposition of persons or forces brings about dramatic tension central to the plot of a story that may be internal as a psychological conflict within a character (e.g., man versus himself) or external as a physical or outward conflict between the character and something/someone else (e.g., man versus man, man versus nature, or man versus society)
Students should examine how the desires and fears of characters set a plot’s events in motion and how the reactions of characters to those events bring about the resolution to the story.
the element of plot structure that contains the conclusion or final outcome in a story and, in some capacity, resolves all problems and conflicts
Not all stories have clear resolutions.
