What A Conflict! - Conflict Quiz 2012

Over the past few weeks we have been learning 

about, identifying and writing conflict in stories.

*Character vs Self

*Character vs Character

*Character vs Society

*Character vs Nature

This week we have a Conflict Quiz 'What a conflict' 

that we need to complete by Thursday, 27th September.

We need to read each picture book and identify 

the main type of conflict found in it.

Each person who correctly answers all of the options will 

be put into a draw to win 100 Mazuma (our class money).

Plot Conflict - Character vs Character - The Ugly Duckling

Conflict

Conflict

The essence of fiction. 

It creates plot. 

The conflicts we encounter in stories can usually be identified as one of four kinds: 

Character vs Character, Character vs Nature, Character vs Society, or Character vs Self.

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Character vs Character

In writing time today we read the story The Ugly Duckling

It is an example of Character vs Character conflict.

Here is the story as a YouTube video.

The Ugly Duckling

We identified the problem/conflict  

(between character and character) and the resolution in this story.

'The conflict happened between the Ugly Duckling 
and the ducks/birds/wooden duck.'  -  Tanae
'He just wanted to fit in, but nobody would accept him.
Then he found a real family.'

Then we demonstrated our knowledge by showing it on a story map.

Conflict - Character vs Self - Where The Wild Things Are

Conflict

Conflict

The essence of fiction. 

It creates plot. 

The conflicts we encounter can usually be identified as one of four kinds: 

Character vs Character, Character vs Nature, Character vs Society, or Character vs Self.

Character vs Self

In writing time today we read the story Where The Wild Things Are

It is an example of Character vs Self conflict.

Here is the story as a YouTube video.

Where The Wild Things Are

We identified the problem/conflict  

(between character and self) in this story.

This is a particularly appealing story because Max is in conflict with both his mother and his own anger. Despite the fact that he is still angry when he is sent to his room, Max does not continue his mischief. Instead, he gives free rein to his angry emotions through his fantasy, and then, comes to a decision that he will no longer let his anger separate him from those whom he loves and who love him.

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'Max was the character who had the character versus self conflict.  The conflict happened because Max was getting a little angry because of his mother telling him what to do all of the time.  So, he made himself an imaginary forest and went where the wild things are.  He calmed down after that.'  - Hamish


Then we demonstrated our knowledge of these by showing them on a story map.

Plot Conflict - Character vs Self - John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat

Conflict

Conflict

The essence of fiction. 

It creates plot. 

The conflicts we encounter can usually be identified as one of four kinds: 

Character vs Character, Character vs Nature, Character vs Society, or Character vs Self.

Character vs Self

In writing time today we read the story John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat

It is an example of Character vs Self conflict.

Here is the story as a YouTube video.

John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat

We identified the problem/conflict  

(between character and society) in this story.

'The character who had the character vs self conflict was John Brown.  The conflict was that John Brown was jealous of the Midnight Cat because he wanted Rose all to himself.'  -  Jason

Then we demonstrated our knowledge of these by showing them on a story map.

Plot Conflict - Character vs Society - Ferdinand the Bull

Conflict

Conflict

The essence of fiction. 

It creates plot. 

The conflicts we encounter can usually be identified as one of four kinds: 

Character vs Character, Character vs Nature, Character vs Society, or Character vs Self.

Character vs Society

In writing time today we read the story Ferdinand the Bull.

It is an example of Character vs Society conflict.

Character vs. society -- 
This is a conflict where a character does not conform or follow a society's/cultures rules. 


Definition of 'society' -
*any organised group of people joined together because of work, interest, etc. in common.
*a group of persons regarded as forming a single community.

Here is the story as a YouTube video.

Ferdinand the Bull

We identified the problem/conflict  

(between character and society) in this story.

'The conflict happened because the bull fighting society thinks that bulls are fierce and expected him to fight, but Ferdinand is kindhearted.'  - Chloe

Then we demonstrated our knowledge of these by showing them on a story map.

Similar stories...
**Aaron M identified that character vs society conflict happened in the recent Alice in Wonderland movie when everyone expected Alice to marry Hamish, but she didn't want to.

Plot Conflict - Character vs Nature - The Lorax

Conflict

Conflict

The essence of fiction. 

It creates plot. 

The conflicts we encounter can usually be identified as one of four kinds: 

Character vs Character, Character vs Nature, Character vs Society, or Character vs Self.


Character vs Nature

In writing time today we read the story The Lorax By Dr Seuss.

It is an example of Character vs Nature conflict and is

 a metaphor for those concerned with the environment.

Here is the story as YouTube videos.

The Lorax - Part 1

The Lorax - Part 2
The Lorax - Part 3

We identified the problem/conflict  

(between character and nature) in this story and identified
how we think this problem could have been resolved earlier in the story.

'The conflict in The Lorax happened because the Lorax had a nice forest filled with Truffula trees, beautiful blue water for the fish, spectacular places for the birds to sing and lots of space for the bears.  But one day the Onceler was going through the town and decided he wanted to use the Truffula trees to make Thneeds.  He made a big factory and cut down all of the Truffula trees...'  -  Hamish


'The conflict in The Lorax happened because the Onceler was cutting down trees.  The Lorax was trying to prevent that, but the Onceler was making money, making a community and getting people jobs so he wanted to carry this on.'  -  Cerianne.


'The Onceler could have only cut off the furry stuff 
(of the Truffula tree) not the whole tree.' - Wilson
'The green man (the Onceler) could have only 
taken some of the trees (and left some).' - Kurtis
'The Onceler could spend some of the money 
that he had earnt on (Truffula) seeds.'  - Kurtis

We then demonstrated our knowledge by showing them on a story map.

Similar stories...
Chloe thought of another story that has character vs nature conflict:
The Three Fishing Brothers' Gruff

A tale about caring for our environment and protecting the earth's resources. 
Once upon a time, there lived three mean and greedy brothers called Gruff. They fish and fish until Poverty Bay is empty, and so resolve to find somewhere else to catch their fish. But watch out, Minke Whale, the Guardian of the Ocean isn't happy and the neither are the townspeople of Poverty Bay! 

Our own conflict stories.

After studying conflict in various different stories, 

we have written our own conflict stories.

We hope you enjoy reading them.

Character vs Self

Laura
Wilson

Character vs Nature

Lyric

Kurtis

Ethan - The Drainman
Grace

Character vs Society

What we know about our Solar System

What we know about our Solar System...

Roller Coaster Ride - Discriptive Writing

Describing a Scary
Roller Coaster Ride

We are currently learning to describe settings and characters.

We have been doing this by considering what we notice with our 5 senses, and to think carefully 

about the choices of language (language features) that we use to 'paint a picture' with our words.

To begin our latest piece of writing we watched these two videos....

We stopped after the first 20 seconds of the first video to discuss how we would be feeling at this point and what our senses would be noticing.  We discussed our level of tension at this point and the language we could use to help us to share this with our audience.

We then watched the next video...


Miss White asked us to watch the boys facial expressions and body language very carefully.
Which things in particular 'show' you how he is feeling?
Your audience for your story can't see a video of your writing.
Which words are you going to use to help them see this picture in their heads with such detail?





Wasn't that video gorgeous!  Miss White loves watching it.  The boys feelings are very obvious to see and we can very clearly identify when his feelings change by his facial expressions (pure fear in his eyes/laughing) and his body language (gripping the bar for dear life/not capable of answering his companion).  It is a very expressive video.

Room 2 was then asked to write a piece of writing describing a roller coaster ride, through making connections to your own experiences, making connections to these feelings and/ or using the boys own experience.

Room 2 and 12s Assembly

29.5.2012