| A | B |
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| #1 Sense Brain Teaser | List details about your topic using your 5 senses: +Great way to start any topic, provides sharp details. (-)Does not organize |
| #2 Alternative Viewpoint Teaser | See the topic from outside narrow point of view..It helps open "our eyes". + organize (-) pulls in many directions |
| #3 Break Stereotypes... | Stereotypes prevent honest, imaginative thinking. Creative thinker must look beyond stereotypes and challenge established ideas |
| #4 Classifying | Breaking a subject into catergories and place individuals in a category. + helps organize, good for science |
| #5 Compare and Contrast | Create a list of similarities and differences. + opens up any topic or discussion (-) common, must work hard to get beyond superficial comparisons |
| #6 Create Metaphor | Metaphors are fun...stirs a reader's imagination and visualization...suggests ideas. |
| #7 List Examples | Make a list of all specific examples about the topic. Single concrete example. Catching one example often hooks more. + good one to use early. (-) doesn't help to organize |
| #8 Bug lists | Complain, complain, complain. List all complaints you can. Helps to find topic to avoid. |
| #9 Ask Questions | "Be a reporter"; Ask the hard questions. + Good for research and problem solving |
| #10 Use Humor and Fantasty | Using humor and fantasty to solve problems. Ex: Reverse expectations of normal rules, break a social scientific law, create new rules, etc. |
| Aspects of Setting | place, time, weather conditions, social conditions, mood or atmosphere |
| Plot | how the author arranges events to develop basic idea |
| Introduction: | beginning of story |
| Rising action | events become complicated |
| Climax | turning point or highest point of interest |
| Falling action | conflict is resolved |
| Denouement | final outcome |
| External Conflict | struggle with a force outside one's self |
| Internal Conflict | A struggle within one's self |
| 4 kinds of Conflict | Man vs. Man, Man vs. Circumstances, Man vs Society, Man vs. Himself |
| Character is revealed | physical appearance, what he says, thinks, feels and dreams, what he does/doesn't do, what people say about him |
| 3 types of Characters | Individual, Developing, Static |
| Individual Character | round, many sided and complex |
| Developing | dynamic, many sided that change, for better or worse |
| Static | Stereotype, have 1 or 2 characteristics that never change |
| Theme | Message, can be given by symbols, allusions, similes, metaphors, etc. |
