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ELA 5: Freytag’s Pyramid and Holes 120 Views
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Today we'll learn about Freytag's Pyramid, which unfortunately has nothing to do with mummies...unless it's being applied to the movie The Mummy , in which case it's totally crawling with them.
Transcript
- 00:04
[Coop and Dino singing]
- 00:13
When we learned about Freytag's Pyramid, we mentioned that it could be applied to all [Freytag's pyramid]
- 00:17
types of writing: tragedies, personal narratives,
- 00:20
even cookbooks. Okay... Well, maybe not cookbooks.
- 00:23
But it definitely does apply to Louis Sachar's novel Holes. Which is good, because otherwise [Holes book opens]
Full Transcript
- 00:28
there would be plot holes in Holes.
- 00:31
As always, we start with the exposition, which is where we first encounter the setting and
- 00:35
the characters before the story really gets going. [Coop teaching about exposition]
- 00:38
In Holes, that's where we meet our protagonist, a boy named Stanley who comes from a family
- 00:42
with very, very bad luck which has been brought upon them by a curse. [Stanley walking and poop lands on his head]
- 00:46
Because that is where bad luck comes from. Which is why you never want to get on a witch's bad side.
- 00:52
Next comes the inciting incident: the event that really gets the story going. [Dino discussing the inciting incident]
- 00:56
Here, Stanley is wrongly accused of stealing some shoes and gets sent off to a detention
- 01:00
center for boys: Camp Green Lake.
- 01:03
Spoiler: it’s not as nice as it sounds. After the inciting incident, we have the rising action, where [Coop explaining the rising action]
- 01:09
we see how the situation is changing for the main character.
- 01:12
For us, that means learning all about how horrible life is for Stanley at Camp Green Lake. [Stanley digs a hole at Camp Green Lake]
- 01:16
True to the book's title, it involves digging a lot of holes…
- 01:20
…but Stanley also meets a kid named Zero, and they become friends. Everything is a little
- 01:26
more bearable with a buddy. Next, the climax: where everything comes to [Top of Freytag's pyramid]
- 01:29
a head. It’s the most intense and exciting part of the story.
- 01:33
In Holes, that's when Stanley escapes from the camp to help Zero. Anybody’s who’s ever [Stanley runs away from the camp]
- 01:38
played dodgeball knows there’s nothing like a good prison break to spice things up.
- 01:42
Next, we have the falling action, where things start to get wrapped up. [Coop discussing falling action]
- 01:45
Here, Stanley saves Zero by bringing him up the mountain, the curse is lifted, and the
- 01:50
boys head back to camp, and later, freedom. [Stanley walking and smells trash]
- 01:52
Ah freedom. It smells so much better than camp.
- 01:55
And finally, we have the resolution: when all the loose ends get tied up.
- 01:59
Now that the curse is lifted and Stanley is finally free from Camp Green Lake,
- 02:02
his luck begins to improve. [Rose lands on Stanley's head]
- 02:04
And he lives happily ever after – just like what always happens in real life. [Stanley sleeping in bed]
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